Top 984 Achieving Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.

For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the abandonment of the ideal of equal opportunity but rather to its postponement: to the notion of achieving for the next generation what could not be achieved for the current one. And the chief means to this end was a brilliant American invention: universal, free, compulsory public education. This "solution" was especially important for children and families because it gave children a central role in achieving the national ideal.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

I vote, but I don't feel that I'm achieving much when I do.

People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.

If you've got a dream, there is no one out there to stop you, from achieving it.

It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagems and ruses may be used in achieving either rational or moral virtues, or in achieving skill in a practical art, or in working evil and wickedness.

Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want, you have a real problem.

Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.

I just love achieving my goals. I'm a goal seeker.

Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.

I think the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all its righteousness and majesty. High-achieving colleagues attempting to get jobs for their high-achieving children. Foundation executives doing fine and noble things. Prizes, of course, and high academic achievement.

Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

Ensure everyone knows what success is and what their role is in achieving it.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

We need to be united, and we all need to understand that we're all capable of achieving the American dream. And, but that has to be something that is self-realized. And also, to demonize someone for achieving the American dream is unfair.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

I am happy that whatever I dreamt of achieving, I have done that.

The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately.

This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.

Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.

There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.

To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.

The more you're obsessed by something, the better chance you have of achieving it.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

If you keep believing what you've been believing, then you'll keep achieving what you've been achieving.

Understanding place is critical to achieving corporate growth.

Don't be afraid to dream of achieving the impossible.

Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to the world is the gift of who you alone are; your way of seeing things, and saying things, and feeling about things, that is like nobody else’s. If so much as a single one of you were missing, there would be an empty place at the great feast of life that nobody else in all creation could fill.

I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

We are all capable of achieving whatever we want and need.

All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.

Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.

There is no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

We will energize America by achieving energy independence

Disability should not be considered a hindrance to achieving one's goals.

Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.

I had a dream, and that dream kind of became a reality when I started taking steps toward it. You don't even realize what you're achieving as you're achieving it.

Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.

When it comes to efficiency and effectiveness, I would always start with effectiveness. I am interested in achieving a certain outcome. Only secondarily do I worry about achieving it as efficiently as possible.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

Fun and pleasure are just as delicious as achieving a goal.

If no one is watching, it doesn't matter what else you are achieving, you are not successful.

Anything worth achieving in life has a dip

I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.

Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it!

There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.

He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.

Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my interpretation, achieving liberation in yoga means learning how to be present with everything that arises, whether it is pain or pleasure, sadness or joy, failure or success. And to be present with whatever arises, I believe we must not only be aware of what is arising but we must also be able to see all things that arise as equal, with detachment.

There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.