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Achiever Quotes (page 29)

We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it. Stephen Fry
Martin Luther King jr. quote: "The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure..."
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may. Martin Luther King jr.
And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating them - a heart which knows only of particular not of general cases and which achieves greatness in little actions. Boris Pasternak
The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. Tom Robbins
Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple things we do, for they can take us where we need to go. Paulo Coelho
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela
Conan O'Brien quote: "My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and..."
My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point. Conan O'Brien
It seems to me if you add music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can't afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as the finished product. You've got to pick at it, keep it alive and in turmoil, you've got to pick at it and unravel it until it all comes apart and you're compelled to start all over again. Maybe we live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as... Nick Hornby
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace. Franz Kafka
Bill Bryson quote: "It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's..."
It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worse nightmare simultaneously. Bill Bryson
Paulo Coelho quote: "When you dream, the universe conspires with you to achieve..."
When you dream, the universe conspires with you to achieve it...from the "The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough. Portia de Rossi
Paulo Coelho quote: "When I was young, I was dazzled by all the things life could..."
When I was young, I was dazzled by all the things life could offer me. I thought I was capable of achieving all of them. Paulo Coelho
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective? (1923) John Gresham Machen
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith

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