Joseph Heller Quotes

There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

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• There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Long
  • Achieve
  • Determined

• When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Strong
  • Enough
  • Achieve

• Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Effort
  • Goal
  • Achieve

• We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Strong
  • Powerful
  • Military

• Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Design

• In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Good
  • Achieve
  • Finding

• I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

  Gail Devers
  • Long
  • Country
  • Career

• Our patience will achieve more than our force.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Force
  • Patience
  • Achieve

• As we continue advancing and leveraging GIS and as we keep bringing in new generations of technology as well as new generations of people, my sense is we're going to achieve extraordinary things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Technology
  • Achieve

• Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Reality
  • Celebrity
  • Disappointment

• You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Ego

• Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Opportunity
  • Disappointment

• I love working for myself. I've grown to dislike the Hollywood machine. Too much bull, disappointment, and quite frankly, untalented, mindless, and hugely disrespectful people involved in the process. I'll take carrying the load on my back, all the way up Everest if needed, to be able to steer away from it.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • People
  • Up
  • Disappointment

• I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • School
  • Job
  • Disappointment

• Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

  

  Marsha Sinetar
  • Up
  • Power
  • Desire

• In any given project, there are a few moments where there is the usual disappointment, as it were, when you look in the mirror, and you realize you're not 23 and looking like Brad Pitt.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Moments
  • Mirror
  • Disappointment

• The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Country

• If you can't believe, you can't achieve.

  

  Jeff Long
  • Believe
  • Achieve

• Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Cold
  • Voice
  • Angry

• No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!

  

  Widad Akrawi
  • Failure
  • Disappointment
  • Embrace

• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Evidence

• It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Country
  • Age
  • Amazing

• Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Knows
  • Stills
  • Touched

• There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Achieve
  • Disappointment