Top 191 Achieving Quotes

Clarity of vision is the key to achieving your objectives.

Cuba is a nation stuck in time, and the regime‘s complete control of businesses, the press and the Internet has kept the Cuban people from advancing and achieving their dreams.

I’m just achieving goals left, right and centre, and I just feel incredibly lucky because I never thought it would happen.

Priorities are the yearly goals that I’m most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.

Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls’ education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits.

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that’s when you’re on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

I have a political philosophy by which I judge political events. It’s called socialism, which at its core is about achieving equality, justice and peace through democracy.

I think ISIS is achieving the objectives that they have set out to achieve. I think that they feel probably very emboldened. They feel pretty good. Their resiliency is extraordinary.

You realise fame is something that if you court it too much or if you indulge in it too much, it will have a negative effect ultimately on your mental health and self esteem, because fame is ultimately about achieving positive self esteem through external factors, and that’s a losing game, I would say.

The ASEAN is located at the center of the Indo-Pacific region and is critical for achieving a Free and Open Indo-Pacific.

The most unfortunate thing in cricket is not achieving what I set out to do from the very beginning: to be a part of a successful team over a long period of time. I had a little taste of it when I started in 1989, and up till 1995.

I don’t put Jardine on a pedestal or worry about any kind of step-up. He’s just another fighter standing in the way of me achieving my goal.

I don’t think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you’re achieving. I’m all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition – and winning.

The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.

Many black youths are defying stereotypes, achieving good academic results, finding employment and contributing to their communities. But helping those who fall behind is not an exercise in political correctness, it is a precisely what a compassionate – and sensible – state should concern itself with.

Fake eyelashes can instantly give me a more dramatic look and also help to accentuate my eyes, which are a focal point to achieving the Lion Babe look.

Know thyself. Remain steadfast. Follow your dreams. These are great directives and perfectly fitting for graduates. But reality is that achieving dreams takes a solid education – education that remains elusive for too many Americans.

The first generation of the young people of our revolution took up arms following Comrade Kim Il Sung and fought the bloody anti-Japanese struggle, thus achieving the historic cause of national liberation.

You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage – understanding them from their point of view, because it’s about them, it’s not about you – it’s their vision and what they’re capable of achieving, and you’re the conduit.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

I think being a scientist is a position of respect and power and access, and it’s a privileged position in society. And I think there are fundamental mechanisms that keep men and women from achieving the same level of power and access and privilege in society.

Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they’re doing it. That’s purpose. And that’s the key to achieving something truly transformational.

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager‘s goal.

Dedicating your life to something, dedicating time to something, ending up achieving it and maybe doing better than that. Me personally, that would be a Stanley Cup. That’s something I’ve dreamed of my whole life. I think that’s why every hockey player at this level plays.

Making films take a lot of intelligence and is tough, though achieving Economics honours is tough, too.

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it’s in sports, or it’s achieving in school, or it’s achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it’s all about.

I’m a huge believer in visualizing achieving the task before it happens.

I am living my childhood dream of racing in Formula 1 and I’ve put my whole life into achieving that dream so it is only natural for me to be giving absolutely everything I’ve got, to achieve success in racing and the day I no longer do that I will retire from racing immediately.

There’s nothing wrong with having goals, but obsessing over them is often counterproductive because, in reality, achieving a goal isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be.

There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.

People will accomplish anything if they believe the goal is worth it – they are worth it and that they are capable of achieving it – and that’s exactly what my ‘Maximize Your Life’ show will do.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Every player wants to see the game grow and flourish so it would be great to be able to help do that by achieving something very special.

Fun and pleasure are just as delicious as achieving a goal.

Front-line officials, including DEA agents, border patrol and other homeland-security professionals, should remind Mr. Trump how important Mexico‘s assistance is in achieving his national-security goals.

Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It’s no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business.

It is so important for children to know that being a little bit wobbly or ‘different’ doesn’t stop somebody from achieving greatness!

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

For me, my career has never been about what I’ve done. But it’s been about becoming, achieving, and pushing myself further.

I’ve been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day – and I truly believe this – it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don’t bring happiness, ultimately.

I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that’s the condition that I attach in accepting any job. This way, I can really work and dedicate myself to the institution for achieving the goal which I believe is a noble one.

I’m a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself.

L.A. has brought so many opportunities and allowed me to reach the level of success I’ve been blessed to achieve thus far. L.A. can definitely open a lot of doors for anyone focused on achieving their passion and dreams.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

As a young player, achieving All-Star status isn’t as easy as you might think.

I would like to say I’ve achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You’re not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.

I make a little goal every day and work toward achieving it – even if it’s the smallest little thing.

I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.

Hyperloop One has accomplished what no one has done before by successfully testing the first full scale Hyperloop system. By achieving full vacuum, we essentially invented our own sky in a tube, as if you’re flying at 200,000 feet in the air.

I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.

Great power is setting a goal, working hard for it, and achieving it in exactly the way you expected with no consequences and no remainders after the long division is done. But does that happen to anyone? The unexpected always hitches a ride along with everything you planned.

I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.

When you are passionate about something, you don’t need external motivation to work towards achieving it.

I used to worry a lot and regret a lot before I took on this whole concept of karma. But now I understand that destiny is what it’s all about. I still push ahead and look forward to achieving certain goals but I try not to lay up expectations that they have to happen.

By the time I was 20 I wanted to be in my first Hollywood blockbuster. Achieving that by 24 is amazing, by God‘s grace – but you’re running on a ticking time bomb.

Pransaab was a great character actor. What he has achieved as an actor, I cannot think of achieving even a part of it.

There’s nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

The EU has made it very clear that for frictionless trade and no tariffs on goods there is a mechanism for achieving that, but there are consequences. There are trade-offs that will have to happen.

On the radio there’s only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people’s attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.

You must not let your negative emotions distract you from achieving your goals.

I’m a little old-school in that I think there’s some value in the classics and the steps of achieving a certain profession. If we start slanging the word ‘chef‘ on anybody and everybody who cooks, it takes away a lot.

Understanding how your business affects human rights and using that knowledge to shape appropriate policies and practices is crucial to achieving what should be the goal of all corporations – sustainable growth.

Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It’s the holy grail of business, but achieving it – even merely explaining it – is lightning-in-a-bottle difficult.

It’s one thing to decry and defy political correctness in the name of efficiently achieving clarity or revealing an honest truth. But it’s quite another thing entirely to support name-calling and nastiness.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don’t have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

I learned a few years ago that balance is the key to a happy and successful life, and a huge part of achieving that balance is to instill rituals into your everyday life – a nutritious balanced diet, daily exercise, time for yourself through meditation, reading, journaling, yoga, daily reflection, and setting goals.

There’s a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song – at the beginning of your career, you’re usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.

I went a long way to play for Manchester United, so nothing will prevent me from achieving my dream.

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

King v. Burwell pointed at but did not directly challenge the ACA’s most essential weakness: Government-mandated participation in health insurance exchanges as a precondition to receiving a subsidy is not the best or most effective means of achieving its goal of expanded access to health coverage.

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.

My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.

I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

Finance is not merely about making money. It’s about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It’s about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.

The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race.

I’ve worked with more than 50 directors ,and I’ve paid attention since day one. That’s pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I’ve seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving. You just leave the bad part out.

Throughout life, a positive attitude is important because without it one has a more difficult time achieving any measure of success, whether it be in school, athletics or the working world.

I’ve had purpose because I’ve always wanted to be successful, but having my son is the cherry on top. He makes me go harder in achieving all that I’ve dreamed of.

The closer we get to achieving equality of opportunity between the sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next major obstacle to improving the well-being of most men and women is the growing socioeconomic inequality within each sex.

I’m close to achieving something that very few boxers ever have – and that is to retire undefeated, like Rocky Marciano.

Press-in crusts are a supposedly easy alternative to the rolled kind, but achieving an even, compacted layer all over isn’t a no-brainer.

Goal-setting and achieving those goals – that’s just what I do.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

I’m a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

I miss my kids sometimes and that can get me down when I’ve been away working, but then I wake up and recognize how incredibly lucky I am. Spending time being down is less time out there achieving and enjoying.

Diversity requires commitment. Achieving the superior performance diversity can produce needs further action – most notably, a commitment to develop a culture of inclusion. People do not just need to be different, they need to be fully involved and feel their voices are heard.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

I learnt a lesson that you mustn’t worry what people think if you are achieving your objective.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

If there’s anything in life you consider worthwhile achieving – go for it. I was told many times to forget show business – I had nothing going for me. But I pursued it, anyway. Voila!

I’d like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.

I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.

Once you achieve something you just want to move on and achieve something else and keep achieving, like Alexander the Great – he captured one country and then he just kept doing it.

I had plenty of invites and chances to party when I just started on tour, but I knew partying would prevent me from achieving my surfing potential.

Sinn Fein is the only political party on this island working to end that fracture in their nation and to achieving the Republic set out in the proclamation.

Understanding place is critical to achieving corporate growth.

Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve‘s other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.

Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps… People don’t understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

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

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it’s extremely important when you’re winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren’t what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years.

In general, for me, a big thing in my life has been just sort of learning what true self-esteem is and what true positive self-image is. And being a dancer, and growing up in that world, you’re so focused on yourself, and you’re so focused on achieving goals, on finding perfection, and working on your craft.

Success has nothing to do with box office as far as I’m concerned. Success has to do with achieving your goals, your internal goals, and growing as a person. It would have been nice to have been connected with a couple more box office hits, but in the long run, I don’t think it makes you happier.

I think success is a relative term. If you’re a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It’s exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect.

I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

There was a big thing in the Behan family of achieving and wanting to be something special. There was a big drive in the family, even though it was poor and working class, to do something important, to contribute something to Irish culture. He certainly achieved that in a spectacular way.

I am very confident about my color. It has never deterred me from achieving anything in life.

I just feel it’s a shame to let fear get in your way and stop you achieving things.

I went a long way to play in Manchester United, so nothing will prevent me from achieving my dream.

George H.W. Bush had perhaps the greatest resume in American history. Director of the CIA, ambassador to the U.N., envoy to China, vice president of the United States and then, of course, president. It’s staggering to contemplate one person achieving so much.

Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.

Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you’re trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.

Disability should not be considered a hindrance to achieving one’s goals.

Retiring for good wasn’t difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I’d set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.

To me, I was celebrating the accomplishment of making it on ‘All Stars’ and doing the best I could. There was no way I could leave being bitter or sad about achieving another girl, accomplishing things that no one else has had the opportunity to do. I was just in a good place. And it was so stressful.

Achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, identifying treatments to diseases like cancer, and harnessing the power of robotics and artificial intelligence to support everyday tasks are all within our grasp. The first country that gives birth to these discoveries will change life as we know it.

You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.

I had many ups and downs at Atletico, achieving the best and the worst.

Achieving a balance between career and children doesn’t necessarily mean the time is split evenly. Successful parents understand there will be times when their family will need more attention and times when a career will demand more energy.

I’m the daughter of refugees. The immigrant mentality is to work hard, be brave, and never give up in your pursuit of achieving the American dream.

I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn’t raising them alone.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden.

When we set up our kids for failure, we set up our workforce for failure, and we set up our economy for failure. I can’t emphasize enough the importance, the absolute importance, of education in achieving long-term economic growth.

Eminem is a major star. Em and JAY-Z have achieved things that I have never came close to achieving in my life. They are both major stars in Hip Hop. And to top it off, they are both very lyrical.

I am happy that whatever I dreamt of achieving, I have done that.

My mom used to cut out articles from the ‘Atlanta Journal Constitution‘ when I was in high school. She would either give them to me to read or she would post them on the fridge. These articles would usually be stories of someone inventing something, breaking records, or achieving some kind of success.

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

What I love most about achieving whatever I’ve achieved is that the Seattle Seahawks follow me on Twitter!

While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman‘s gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can’t distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.

It was not until Web comics that I saw stories about women and stories by women and things that were aimed specifically at female readership. It was just kind of this free-for-all that was achieving something amazing with creativity. That was where I got my start.

Since my first encounter with Kafka‘s writing, I’ve been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.

After doing boxing a little bit, I knew that I wanted to achieve what the other boxers were achieving: the championship and whatever comes with the championships.

If a footballer is well motivated and has various things to motivate him every day, he will keep achieving his goals.

While Democrats spent the year of 2019 obstructing, President Trump spent the year achieving.

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

The love of what you do, combined with your belief in what you do, will not determine your success. It will determine how hard you will work and how dedicated you will be to achieving it. Success just shows up from there.

Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.

I feel satisfied after achieving something difficult.

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

Science – or the products of science like technology – is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

One of the greatest mistakes of successful people is the assumption, ‘I behave this way, and I achieve results. Therefore, I must be achieving results because I behave this way.’ This belief is sometimes true, but not across the board.

Life is all about setting yourself goals and then achieving them.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

I no longer believe that every leftist simply has a different means of achieving a successful route for America as I did formerly.

I’ve written that there are some workplaces where the best thing you could have for achieving the best terms and conditions of employment will be a labor union. They play an important role.

Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes – they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you’ve become.

People like to watch surfing, but maybe the girls get the wrong kind of promotion and the wrong kind of press. I might be called a feminist for saying it, but it’s like the girls are promoted sexually rather than what they’re achieving.

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.

I want the United Kingdom to be the best place in the world in which to grow old. By ensuring that as many as possible have the opportunity to build up a decent private income for later life we will be well on the way to achieving this.

Don’t waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can’t do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?

Life is about growth and exploration, not achieving a fixed state of balance. You have a very limited time on earth to experience all that you can. Figuring out how to squeeze the most out of your family, work, and spirituality is your life’s purpose. Go do it.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don’t get in any other way than from being creative.

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.

I model myself on Christie Rampone and look up to her. Obviously, achieving what she’s achieved would be magnificent. I’d really like to meet her just once.

It’s very important that we all have a common understanding of our purpose as a business – what we aspire to – and a strategy for achieving it.

One of the hardest things to do for business people and leaders is to keep the team focused on achieving the goal.

If you are calm about your ambitions, you become confident of achieving what you set out to do.

A lot of times, people just want to be an individual. But if you really want to win, at the end of the day, it’s not about you just achieving something. Everybody can achieve more if they work together.

When you’re worrying about crime rates, go help teach kids to read at a young age so that their chances for climbing out of poverty and achieving success in school and life go up.

Seoul will build more resource recovery facilities and establish new recycling facilities with the aim of achieving zero landfills of domestic waste.

The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I’m very passionate about injustice against women and there’s too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold.

I’m not scared of growing old, I’m just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

Football is about trophies, no? About achieving objectives.

What I found over the years is the most important thing is for a team to come together over a compelling vision, a comprehensive strategy for achieving that vision, and then a relentless implementation plan.

I’m going to have a very thoughtful and meaningful enforcement response to Superfund to make sure that we are achieving good outcomes for citizens across the country with respect to that entire portfolio of 1,336 or so sites.

I think a lot of people miss out on opportunities, they miss out on achieving their dream, and they miss out on doing what they love to do because they’re allowing something else, something outside of them and outside of God, to dictate what their life’s going to look like.

I am what this country dreams of achieving: a perfect example of composite India.

I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can’t for a moment be equal to the suffering you’ve caused.

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

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who… has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming – and achieving – big dreams again.

If you can imagine you have thought about something your whole life, and you have invested everything you have got into achieving that moment, and then the ball hits the back of the net for England and you are wearing the number nine shirt.

The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.

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.

Boxing gave me a path in life. Because of boxing, I learned what I’m capable of achieving if I put my mind to it and how hard work can and will pay off in the end. It gave me confidence and taught me to face fear straight on and dig down deep when times get tough.

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

Every baby step India takes in achieving anything towards its betterment enhances my identity and personality because I love my country.

Britain needs a good Brexit deal to safeguard jobs, security and trade and to build a new partnership with the E.U. Achieving this will be fiendishly difficult.

Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she’s achieved.