The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person. (Quote by - Candace Bushnell)

My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda. (Quote by - Donald Walters)

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr )

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. (Quote by - E. O. Wilson)

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)

For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement. (Quote by - Mikhail Saakashvili)

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people. (Quote by - Gustav Krupp)

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting. (Quote by - Dr. Theodor Reik)

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear. (Quote by - Mitt Romney )

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)

Destiny is not a 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)

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. (Quote by - Willard Libby)

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. (Quote by - Unknown)

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins )

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory. (Quote by - Max Euwe)

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records. (Quote by - Richard Thompson )

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me. (Quote by - Alicia Machado)

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius. (Quote by - Henryk Sienkiewicz )

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small. (Quote by - Gordon Parks)