...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
Achieving Success: Inspiring Quotes to Guide You - page 146
Look at Chancellor [Angela] Merkel, her personal story helps to tell a story of incredible achievement that the German people have embarked on and I think is something that you should be very proud of.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
Sydney J. Harris
No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
If you go around promising what you do not yet have, you will lose the will to achieve it.
People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.
Daniel Gilbert
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
Karl Kraus
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.
Harold Lewis
You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.
Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.
John Eliot
Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.
Charles Schumer
Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
Ben Bernanke
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
Thomas Beecham
