Achieve Quotes

You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.

I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.

My aim is to achieve sustainable change, not just make a cute little makeover.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.

I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

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.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I don't want to achieve less than my mum and dad.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

Our goal should be to achieve joy.

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.

If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.

I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The more abilities that we have, the more choices we can make musically.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.