Quotes with achieve

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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Boethius Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book 4, Prose 2, 524. Translated from Latin by Ric
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Cameron Mackintosh Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
    Cameron Mackintosh
    British theatrical producer and theatre owner (1946 - )
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  • Thomas A. Bennett Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
    Thomas A. Bennett
    Irish Carmelite priest
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  • Thomas Arnold Bennett Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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  • I Ching He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • James Allen He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Beth Ditto Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Toni Morrison How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
    Paradise (1998)
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bertrand Russell I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
    The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Alan Cranston I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • Woody Allen I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work ... I want to achieve it through not dying.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Walter Chrysler I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
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  • Greg LeMond I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.
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  • Luigi Pirandello I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bill Gates I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • 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
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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