Achieving Quotes

578 quotes by 444 authors

There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more. — Joseph Heller
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have… — Eric Hoffer
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does… — Ayn Rand
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
If you donâ€™t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is youâ€™re trying to accomplish, then youâ€™re forever doomed to spend… — Steve Pavlina
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. — Miguel de Unamuno
For a moment, I was captivated as I studied them side by side. My mother: the perfect picture of guardian excellence and decorum. My father:… — Richelle Mead
Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my… — Harper Lee
It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way… — Karl Popper
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in… — Eudora Welty
Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them. — Michael J. Sullivan
I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didnâ€™t have to keep… — Portia de Rossi
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they… — George Orwell
My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to… — Noam Chomsky
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure. — John C. Maxwell
A general â€œlaw of least effortâ€ applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving… — Daniel Kahneman
Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often… — Alain de Botton
Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving. — Lois McMaster Bujold
Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect. — Meister Eckhart

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