1. Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.-Ayn Rand
2. You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.-Cathy Freeman
3. A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.-Vivek Wadhwa
4. There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one’s maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.-Buck Rodgers
5. To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.-Leonard Bernstein
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6. What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude.-Lou Holtz
7. The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.-Peter Drucker
8. If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.-Zig Ziglar
9. There will always be something higher for me to reach for, and as long as there is, I’ll keep reaching.-David McNeill
10. Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.-Eric Butterworth
11. If you want to achieve a high goal, you’re going to have to take some chances.-Alberto Salazar
12. To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.-Marquis De Vauvenargues
13. There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.-Sophie Swetchine
14. The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.-Bo Bennett
15. The thing that contributes to anyone’s reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.-Charles E. Wilson
16. To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.-Al Oerter
17. It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.-Gustav Mahler
18. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.-Plutarch
19. You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.-Les Brown
20. Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.-Harvey Mackay
21. The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.-Michelangelo
22. The first rule of achieving goodness is this: think only about self-perfection.-Leo Tolstoy
23. If you can dream it, you can do it.—Walt Disney
24. Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.-Henry J. Kaiser
25. The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.-Quentin Crisp
26. The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.-Thomas Edison
27. If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.-Thomas J. Watson
28. To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.-Ayn Rand
29. If you want to achieve things in life, you’ve just got to do them, and if you’re talented and smart, you’ll succeed.-Juliana Hatfield
30. If you want to achieve what you dream of achieving, whatever it may be, you’re going to have to earn it.-Miles D. White