Achievement Quotes - Page 9

If the Almighty in his mercy allows us to settle peace among the christian leaders, we shall press on not only to destroy completely the bad seeds, but also to expand the territories of Christ, and, supported by these achievements, we shall go forward, with God favouring his own purposes, to the most holy expedition against the infidels, the desire for which is deeply fixed in our heart.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the best of what you have.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.

A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.

When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.

Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.

If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our topics of conversation, it is difficult not to see that a very remarkable change in several respects has come into our ideas; a change which, by its rapidity, seems to us to foreshadow another still greater. Time alone will tell the aim, the nature and limits of this revolution, whose inconveniences and advantages our posterity will recognize better than we can.

I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements.

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.

True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.

Just as Christ said: I am not come to destroy the Law, but to fulfill it, so Spiritism says: We have not come to destroy the Christian Law, but to carry it out... Spiritism has come at the predicted time to fulfill what Christ announced and to prepare for the achievement of future things. It is then, the work of Christ, Who, as He also announced, presides over the regeneration which is now taking place and which will prepare the reign of the Kingdom of God here on Earth.

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.