We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.
That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
If we set our minds, we can achieve anything.
To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.
Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.
The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself.
What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal.
There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.
Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.
When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition to achieve that goal!
Some dancers dream about successful careers. . . and some dancers wake up and do the hard work that's necessary to achieve them.
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.
Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.
I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.
In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.
The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.
Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.
