Achieving Quotes

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth.

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards.

I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals.

We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.

All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

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

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.