Achieved Quotes
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (Quote by - William Jennings Bryan)
It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. (Quote by - F. M. Young)
Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do. (Quote by - Gian Carlo Menotti)
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much. (Quote by - Joan Collins)
All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond. (Quote by - Shania Twain)
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
It is fantastic to have achieved the success and I'm thankful to the fans for it. (Quote by - Corinne Bailey Rae)
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. (Quote by - Arthur Erickson)
Never would it occur to a child that a sheep, a pig, a cow or a chicken was good to eat, while, like Milton's Adam, he would eagerly make a meal off fruits, nuts, thyme, mint, peas and broad beans which penetrate further and stimulate not only the appetite but other vague and deep nostalgias. We are closer to the Vegetable Kingdom than we know; is it not for man alone that mint, thyme, sage, and rosemary exhale crush me and eat me! -- for us that opium poppy, coffee-berry, tea-plant and vine perfect themselves? Their aim is to be absorbed by us, even if it can only be achieved by attaching themselves to roast mutton. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. (Quote by - George Shaw)
The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts. (Quote by - William Osler)
I'm very proud of what we achieved together - getting Andy Murray into the top 50 and winning his first ATP Tour title at the age of 18. (Quote by - Mark Petchey)
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. (Quote by - Henrik Tikkanen)
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. (Quote by - Bessie Stanley)
After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. (Quote by - Omar N. Bradley)
A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue. (Quote by - Cornel West)
Human successes, like human failures, are composed of one action at a time and achieved by one person at a time. (Quote by - Patty H. Sampson)
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. (Quote by - Isaac Barrow)
Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meeting. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Hell is out of fashion -- institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of Twentieth Century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave. (Quote by - J. G. Ballard)
I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive. (Quote by - Virginia Wade)
I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace. (Quote by - Natan Sharansky)
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. (Quote by - Maurice Chevalier)
Lasting accomplishment... Is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self discipline. (Quote by - Helen Hayes)
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. (Quote by - Joshua Loth Liebman)
Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make. (Quote by - Angela Barron McBride)
Full maturity Is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make. (Quote by - Angela Barron McBride)
Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have out-lived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. (Quote by - Justice William O. Douglas)
I think people realise that I'm happy with what I've achieved. (Quote by - Kelly Holmes)
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy. (Quote by - Kelly Miller)
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast; the moment has long since passed which determined the future. (Quote by - Zelda Fitzgerald)
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
My general theory since has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute. (Quote by - William Seward Burroughs)
That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, while the man seems careless and indifferent. (Quote by - Sophy Burnham)
Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history. (Quote by - James Dickey)
Peace is achieved by accepting the things you're not willing to change and changing the things your not willing to accept. (Quote by - Marilyn Suttle)
The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure. (Quote by - St. Francis of Assisi)
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. (Quote by - Ralph Nader)
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Lloyd did what he achieved with that shot. (Quote by - Jack Bannister)
Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy. (Quote by - Stuart Cloete)
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. (Quote by - Albert Pike)
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)
If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer. (Quote by - Rosalynn Carter)
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. (Quote by - Thomas J. Watson)
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot. (Quote by - Melanie Chisholm)
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. (Quote by - W Clement Stone)
I experienced a lot, and achieved nearly everything I wanted. I can enjoy that today. Go to bed at nine in the evening, because my child wakes up around seven, without having the feeling that I missed or are missing something. (Quote by - Thomas Kretschmann)
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of it's future yet to be achieved. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege. (Quote by - Yasser Arafat)
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. (Quote by - Joshua L. Liebman)
You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. (Quote by - George Shaw)
The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
I'm an actor.nd I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant. (Quote by - Forest Whitaker)
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. (Quote by - Bruce Barton)
I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare. (Quote by - Kenneth Lay)
America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that co. (Quote by - Senator John Kerry)
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. (Quote by - David V. A. Ambrose)
