Achieve Quotes - Page 17

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it!

The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.

You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.

You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed.

Who will you have to become, to achieve all you want?

A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.

Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

Instead of envying what others have, decide what YOU want out of life and focus on achieving it.

The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.