You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.
Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.
Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.
A sadhak (one who does spiritual practice) will not have time to indulge in gossip. They will not feel like talking to anyone in a harsh manner. Those who always indulge in faultfinding will never achieve spiritual progress. Do not harm anyone by thoughts, words or deeds. Be compassionate towards all beings. Ahimsa (nonviolence) is the highest dharma (duty).
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve.
One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?
Very few things which are really worth achieving come easily. Sometimes they do, but most of the time you really have to work hard and cleverly.
The greatest strength a man can achieve is gentleness.
I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
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!
I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished.
The task I'm trying to achieve, above all, is to make you see.
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.