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The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.
In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.
All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.
In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
Well, at least I have the satisfaction of having destroyed a terrible monster, and in doing so rid the world of an awful curse.
I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.
I'm no role model, but I thought if I showed my frailties, which I had turned around into achievement, I could help many others.
Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.
The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.
Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.
Beating a record for the oldest World Cup player means that it's an achievement for my country before it's an achievement for me.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.
As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.
I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement.
It's so important for me to do my own stunts. The sense of achievement is so immense. But the studios don't want to take the risk.
We will try to honor David Letterman achievement by doing the best show we can.And occasionally making the network very mad at us.
One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.
Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.
I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.
My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.
I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything.
Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.
Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.
I worry about a lot of things, but I don’t worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven.