Achieve Quotes - Page 15

• I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Finals, Spirit, Reason

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• You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.

  Jeff Bridges

  Trying, Emptiness, Film

  "THR Cover: Jeff Bridges' Revealing New Interview" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.

  Alex Bogusky

  Greatness, People, Matter

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• Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.

  Brian Tracy

  Capacity, Difficulty, Persist

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House

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• Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Talking, Quality, Gains

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• We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.

  George W. Bush

  Writing, Math, Simple

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• I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.

  Douglas Adams

  Ideas, Advice, Wish

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• You need teamwork to achieve real success, and that attitude comes straight from soccer.

  Matt Bahr

  Soccer, Teamwork, Attitude

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• The 1980's witnessed a new dance genre in New York City and Los Angeles. Slam Dancing was perhaps a way for adolescent males to deal with the stressors of maturation, aggressive personal feelings, and violence in the society at large. Through dancing, the youths expressed raw power and rage while achieving euphoria, enhanced self-concept, and a healthy fatigue.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  New York, Cities, Self

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.175, Rowman Altamira

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• There is no objective criteria for either success or failure. People who achieve their goals are successful, those who don't are not.

  Michael Josephson

  Successful, People, Goal

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• 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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• Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

  John C. Maxwell

  Jobs, War, Winning

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Opposites, Goal

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

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Determined, Impossible

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• Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.

  William James

  Mean, Goal, Variables

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• Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Careers, Balance

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• You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

  Warren Buffett

  Everyday Things, Effort, Ordinary

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• Anyone can want something; it's those who believe in their goals that achieve.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Want Something, Goal

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• I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place when you think 'Oh I'm a fashion legend' then that's when you're no longer competitive in your field.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Thinking, People

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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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• A higher concept of yourself involves taking on new truths and shedding your old views of what you can achieve. This is the only way you can achieve your desires.

  Wayne Dyer

  Views, Desire, Way

  Wayne W. Dyer (2012). “Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting”, p.32, Hay House, Inc

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• Spirituality is the science that teaches us how to achieve peace of mind and supreme satisfaction. Right now we are hankering after many, many things, but nothing we get satisfies us. Spirituality tells us that satisfaction can be found only if we lead a good and divine life-a life of simplicity, purity and humility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Humility, Simplicity, Mind

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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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