America’s ‘social contract’ is equal opportunity… yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal. – George Kaiser
Creating mechanisms for ending deforestation and promoting regeneration of the environment is one of the most effective ways of achieving net-zero emissions. – Guilherme Leal
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. – Hideki Tojo
I went a long way to play in Manchester United, so nothing will prevent me from achieving my dream. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards. – Guy Forget
I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals. – Harvey Mackay
I’d like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice. – Heather Bresch
I went a long way to play for Manchester United, so nothing will prevent me from achieving my dream. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia. – Hu Jintao
Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one. – Grant Achatz
I’m sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they’re unhappy with what they’re doing, or not achieving things – when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they’re worthy. I like to wake up and feel I’ve done no wrong. I like that feeling. – John Lydon
Obama’s presidency hasn’t been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs. – John Podhoretz
If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it’s not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don’t seem to exist. – Jesse Eisenberg
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. – John C. Maxwell
I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can’t for a moment be equal to the suffering you’ve caused. – Ingmar Bergman
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did. – Imran Khan
I think the American Dream used to be achieving one’s goals in your field of choice – and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow. – Buzz Aldrin
I’ve always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you’ve got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish. – Chuck Norris
Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives. – Ben Bernanke
I would like to say I’ve achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You’re not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success. – Brooklyn Decker
Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind. – Andrew Weil
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. – Bill Bradley
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. – Alan Greenspan
I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st! – Anthony Minghella
