Achieved Quotes
1264 quotes by 1005 authors
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He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest…
— Laozi
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Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look…
— Thomas Frank
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Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest…
— Ernest Van den Haag
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No matter who you are, no matter what greatness you've achieved in your life or what gifts you've given to the rest of humanity, if…
— Susan Abulhawa
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Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the…
— Gavin Bryars
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No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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The biggest thing right now is to know that I just didn't give up. It would have been the easiest thing for me to just…
— Jason Day
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By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into…
— Damon Knight
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The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one that cannot be…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future…
— Robert Ardrey
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The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest…
— Andrew Bacevich
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The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make…
— Bhagat Singh
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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be…
— Samuel Smiles
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There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and vessel that are…
— Clarence Robison
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Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a lifelong process - and the higher the values, the…
— Ayn Rand
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We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have…
— Omar N. Bradley
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. . . It wasn't until the jet engine came into being and that engine was coupled with special airplane designs - such as the…
— Joe Sutter
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Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.
— Dalai Lama
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Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His…
— Abdul Kalam
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I never travel across this great nation without experiencing a feeling of gratitude and thanksgiving for all that we have and are. As I see…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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