Achieve Quotes - Page 38

• My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

  George Clooney

  Father, Way, Compromise

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• When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive, Being Strong, Dream

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.295, Courier Corporation

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• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  Damien Hirst

  Goal, Way, Life Is

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• During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.

  Francois Hollande

  Mean, Goal, Office

  "François Hollande's popularity plummets four months after election" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2012.

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• A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

  Herbert Read

  Character, Men, Personality

  Herbert Read (1928). “English Prose Style”

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• Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

  Robert Redford

  Mean, Talking, Ends

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• I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Eight, Years, Liverpool

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• Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

  Frederick Reines

  Leadership, Boys, Years

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• I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

  Keith Richards

  Rolling, Records, Stones

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• Leaders of the world, my message to you is simple: to achieve universal peace and understanding on this planet you have only to speak plainly, even though you may look foolish. This is a thousand times better than looking good and talking nonsense.

  David Small

  Simple, Talking, Leader

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• This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Understanding, Inner Peace, Mind

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• We stand there for a moment, looking at each other, and in that instant I feel our connection so strongly it's as though it achieves physical existence, becomes a hand all around us, cupping us together, protecting us. This is what people are always talking about when they talk about god: this feeling, of being held and understood and protected. feeling this way seems about as close to saying a prayer as you could get.

  Lauren Oliver

  Prayer, Hands, Talking

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.245, Hachette UK

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• Beauty is the enemy . We try to conquer not feeling beautiful all our lives. It's a battle that can't be won. There's no definition of beauty. The only way to achieve beauty is to feel it from inside without breaking down into individual physical attributes.

  Miley Cyrus

  Beautiful, Feelings, Enemy

  "22 Words of Wisdom from Voice of Reason, Miley Cyrus". www.hollywoodreporter.com.

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• You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Mean, Thinking, Upheaval

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• It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Atheist, Men, Important

  Telephone Remarks to a Group of Boy Scouts: "What it Means to Be a Boy Scout", July 25, 1924.

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• What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Practice, Natural Gifts, Ability

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• The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

  Mick Jagger

  Way, Madness, Performances

  "Fictional character: Turner". "Performance", www.imdb.com. 1970.

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• My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

  Michael Jordan

  Mothers Day, Mom, Roots

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• It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as perspective, which is supposed to put all past wrongs into their rightful and diminished place, that happy place where all the talk is of lessons learned and inner peace. No one will ever understand the potency of my memories, which are so solid and vivid that I don’t need a psychiatrist to tell me they are driving me crazy. My subconscious has not buried them, my superego has not restrained them. They are front and center, they are going on right now.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Memories, Crazy, Past

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love, but beyond that they fail clumsily. My love flowed out to her, hers back to me. Mine stroked and soothed. Hers caressed. The distance - and the difference - between us dwindled and vanished. We could meet, mingle, and blend. Neither one of us existed any more; for a time there was a single being that was both. There was escape from the solitary cell; a brief symbiosis, sharing all the word.

  John Wyndham

  Distance, Cells, Differences

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• In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur...us to achieve great things.

  Jerry Spinelli

  People, Age, Spurs

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• That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Writing, Political, Mind

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “Letters to a Young Novelist”, p.3, Macmillan

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• A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Religious, Art, Giving

  "Truth and Method". Book by Hans-Georg Gadamer (p. 76), 1960.

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• Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, Knowing, Wish

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• And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Strong, Eye, Journey

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.818, Macmillan

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