Achieved Quotes
1264 quotes by 1005 authors
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Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it…
— Jeannette Walls
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One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the…
— Wallace Stegner
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In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation,…
— Steven Pressfield
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Yes, I've worked hard; and yes, I may have achieved a certain level of success-but I'm very clear about the fact that none of it…
— David Archuleta
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An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse --…
— Sam Harris
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The success I've achieved comes to me from God
— Justin Bieber
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I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness…
— Dalai Lama
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One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of…
— Josh Lanyon
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Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that…
— Beryl Markham
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White people...have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which…
— James A. Baldwin
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People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can't do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency…
— Ayn Rand
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note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]
— Tao Lin
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The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.
— Ayn Rand
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But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in…
— Kathy Acker
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The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it,…
— Jonathan Franzen
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The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book…
— Mem Fox
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If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it.…
— Paulo Coelho
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