Achieve Quotes
- Page 16More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.
James McGreevey
We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.
Gordon Smith
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
Jennifer Garner
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
Michael Jordan
Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.
Ariel Sharon
I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
William De Morgan
Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.
Luke Wilson
In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.
David McCallum
On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.
Thomas S. Monson
Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.
Dawn Fraser
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Ayn Rand
When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.
Sally Pearson
But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
Adam Schiff
If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?
Adam Schiff
It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.
Aung San Suu Kyi
We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.
Bruce Vento
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln
If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?
Bob McDonnell
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Giorgos Seferis
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Jean Racine
Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.
Angela Merkel
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill
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
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
Abbott L. Lowell
I guess because it feels more open, but I think being married is way sexier, because it's really like your soul partner in a permanent fashion, and then you strive for it to be something permanent, and that type of commitment and trust, if you can achieve it, is so good for the soul.
Leelee Sobieski