Achieved Quotes

• Whenever I receive death announcements, I consistently notice that a kind of emotion grips me and I feel astonished disbelief. It is as though the departed had passed a difficult examination and achieved something I had not believed him capable of.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Death
  • Emotion
  • Disbelief

• There is not too much left for me to do, but I am sure there are a couple of great fights out there for me. I have basically achieved my goals. There are a few fights the public wants to see, and that is really what is left for me.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Goals
  • Achieved
  • Fights

• Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

  

  Joshua L. Liebman
  • Maturity
  • Achieved
  • Tension

• The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Achieved
  • Extremes
  • Dividing

• That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to be achieved.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Future
  • Achieved

• Success is not found in what you have achieved but rather in who you have become.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Success
  • Achieved
  • Not Found

• You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Goals
  • Mission
  • Complete

• What have we achieved? ... In his world, in his culture, this is a major step. From our perspective it isn't.

  

  Abraham Foxman
  • Culture
  • Step
  • Achieved

• Thank you for your kind words. You are right, revenge knows no end until it is achieved.

  

  Wang Yi
  • End
  • Revenge
  • Achieved

• In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Believed
  • Socialism
  • Countries

• Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Prayer
  • New York
  • Talents

• Defeating terrorism in Libya can only be achieved through the political and institutional determination of a united Libyan government, which will need the strong and unequivocal support from the international community in confronting the myriad challenges facing Libya.

  

  Bernardino Leon
  • Community
  • Government
  • Challenges

• If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught!

  

  Bill Munson
  • Health
  • Beauty
  • Lose

• Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Laws
  • Achieved
  • Govern

• Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Beautiful
  • Faith
  • Forgiveness

• I'm not one of those actresses that's going to feel like I never achieved my dreams and goals and just get disgruntled and hate everything about the business. I've had so much fun.

  

  Ming-Na Wen
  • Never
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved, to join the freest and most advanced nations in inaugurating a new era of peace, justice, and joint cooperation in the work of civilization.

  

  Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
  • Justice
  • Revolution
  • Liberty

• Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wealth
  • Enlightenment
  • Achieved

• Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Greatness
  • Written
  • Achieved

• Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.

  

  Solon
  • Created
  • Achieved
  • Honors

• What is your passion? What have you achieved? What have you done uncommonly well? How are you wired? Where do you belong? What are the “shoulds” that have trailed you during the first half? These and other questions like them will direct you toward the self your heart longs for; they will help you discover the task for which you were especially made.

  

  Bob Buford
  • Passion
  • Questions
  • Hearts

• I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you've had your head in a bucket.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Means
  • Civil
  • Behaviors

• Creativity is achieved in the doing, it's not achieved in the thinking.

  

  Dan Fante
  • Thinking
  • Creativity
  • Achieved

• Over time, I've come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I've developed a much more team-based approach. There's the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn't have to take the credit for what was achieved.

  

  Melanne Verveer
  • Saying
  • Recognize
  • Developed

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