Achieve Quotes - Page 12

• A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.

  Michael Josephson

  Happy Life, Goal, Unhappy

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• I hope each of us realizes, at least in part, what a rich blessing it is to be at BYU. We are better prepared to receive and achieve the wonderful advantages and opportunities that life has yet to offer us because of what has happened to us here.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Blessing, Opportunity, Byu

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• I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty. Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.... I think beauty is an expression of love.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Beautiful, Mother, Thinking

  "The Breakthrough: Lupita Nyong'o". Interview with Leslie Bennetts, www.glamour.com. November 3, 2014.

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• No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Determined, Impossible

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• Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.

  Stephen Covey

  Wall, People, Ladders

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• Once you get in shape, you'll be amazed at how many other goals you'll want to achieve in your life. Fitness breeds enthusiasm.

  Denise Austin

  Goal, Shapes, Want

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2014

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• We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.

  Saint Basil

  Thinking, Should, Preaching

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.180, CUA Press

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• Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.

  Charles Stanley

  Believe, Goal, Reaching

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• Nobody wanders his or her way to a dream, and nobody achieves a dream by accident. Don't shortcut the process and risk cheating yourself out of your dream!

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Cheating, Risk

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It”, p.240, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That's the Law of Significance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Greatness, Law, Games

  John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The third important ingredient for achieving peak performance is attitude. Attitude is how you deal with the inevitable adverse situations that occur in the markets. Attitude is also how you handle the daily grind, the constant 2 steps forward and 2 steps back.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Attitude, Important, Ingredients

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• Freedom is something that we got to achieve inside ourselves. Nobody can achieve it outside oneself.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Oneself

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• Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.

  John Wooden

  Tasks, Becoming, Easier

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.40, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You should diligently play scales and fingerpractices. There are many, however, who believe they'll achieve all, by practicing daily on technique for hours on end, up till high age. It's like practicing every day to enumerate the alfabet faster and faster. One would think one could make better use of their valuable time.

  Robert Schumann

  Believe, Thinking, Play

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• To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

  John Avery

  Mean, Excellence, Aspire

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• The act of collaboration must start with dialogue. You cannot build relationships without having an understanding of your potential partners, and you cannot achieve that understanding without a special form of communication that goes beyond ordinary conversation.

  Daniel Yankelovich

  Communication, Understanding, Special

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• ...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

  Aristotle

  Men, Views

  Aristotle,, Sir Ernest Barker, R. F. Stalley (2009). “The Politics”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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• The strong desire for success is the best indication that you can achieve success.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Strong, Desire, Indication

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• Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

  Charles Dickens

  Land, Doubt, Trying

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• A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.

  C. S. Lewis

  Simple, Extinction, Ends

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There should be momentum created for achievement of goals by 2022. When we celebrate the 75th anniversary of freedom we should achieve targets

  Narendra Modi

  Goal, Achievement, Momentum

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• Achieving it is not only the chief means of adding to your regular duties.

  Doug Larson

  Mean, Chiefs, Duty

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• We are all on a collision course with ourselves. Inevitably, our existing habits will be counter-productive to achieving our bigger picture goals. To avoid the crash, we need to regularly review how we are doing things and make adjustments as needed.

  John Fairclough

  Goal, Needs, Crash

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• There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.

  Henry Rollins

  Real, Independent, Views

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• Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Past, Play

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