Achieve Quotes - Page 15

If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

O Nanak, the worldly achievements and glory is worthy of being burnt in the fire if it causes one to forget God. Usually these worldly things has caused mortals to forget the the Name of the Lord. Not even one of them will go along with you in the end.

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

One can say, looking at the papers in this symposium, that the elucidation of the genetic code is indeed a great achievement. It is, in a sense, the key to molecular biology because it shows how the great polymer languages, the nucleic acid language and the protein language, are linked together.

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.

The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Most people know how to set goals; few know how to achieve them.

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

There is always joy in achieving ,but the greater satisfaction lies in sharing the achievement.

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

Remember that the subconscious mind has determined the success and wonderful achievements of all great scientific workers.

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.