Achieved Quotes
1264 quotes by 1005 authors
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Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum.…
— Olivier Clement
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For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.
— Thomas Merton
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It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Investors should always keep in mind that the most important metric is not the returns achieved but the returns weighed against the risks incurred. Ultimately,…
— Seth Klarman
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I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that…
— Bertrand Russell
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I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the…
— Andrew Carnegie
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Fundamentals were the most crucial part of my game in the NBA. Everything I did, everything I achieved, can be traced back to the way…
— Michael Jordan
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Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them there.
— Cindy Sherman
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I felt so full of gratitude and humility that I clasped my hands in front of me, closed my eyes and said a silent prayer…
— Cathy Freeman
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When I first made the comeback it was more about getting fit and hopefully inspiring others to lead a better life... for me to achieve…
— Geoff Huegill
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I've achieved everything I ever wanted. I've done three Olympics, world championships, I've been around the world and made good friends. But I still have…
— Leisel Jones
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... that ultimate success in community leadership will only be achieved if it stimulates participation by others who are also to be seen as in…
— James Gobbo
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The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. The victory will be only entirely and finally…
— Julius Streicher
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I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women... This social revolution of feminism in the '70s really achieved so…
— Katy Perry
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No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.
— Emma Watson
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Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness…
— T.E. Lawrence
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Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact,…
— Jean Aitchison
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A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what…
— Ayn Rand
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Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.
— Tom Clancy
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