Achieved Quotes
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But do you remember Gandalf’s words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
Epictetus
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When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.
Lao Tzu
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I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.
Evelyn Keyes
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Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.
Ezra Furman
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I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.
Brennan Manning
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Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest benefits likely to be achieved.
Ernest Van den Haag
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If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.
David Ambrose
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Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts.
Ernst Mayr
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I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.
Ethan Hawke
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That even if we're constantly tempted to lower our guard -- out of love, or weariness, or sympathy, or kindness-- we women shouldn't do it. We can lose from one moment to the next everything that we have achieved.
Elena Ferrante
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You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better.
Anthony Robbins
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
Jules Verne
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As long as our independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.
Gaston Miron