Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps… People don’t understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do. – Bertrand Piccard
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. – Ayn Rand
It’s funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists’ goals. – Craig Bruce
Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it. – Amy Sherman-Palladino
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting. – Arthur Ashe
I’ve had purpose because I’ve always wanted to be successful, but having my son is the cherry on top. He makes me go harder in achieving all that I’ve dreamed of. – Ciara
The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I’m very passionate about injustice against women and there’s too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold. – Cherie Blair
Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them. – Charles B. Rangel
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
To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world. – America Ferrera
Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes – they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. – Agatha Christie
Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything. – Boris Johnson
My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That’s something worth achieving. – Pierce Brosnan
I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal. – Estelle Morris
What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, ‘Nobu! I have done it!’ – Nobu Matsuhisa
I think ISIS is achieving the objectives that they have set out to achieve. I think that they feel probably very emboldened. They feel pretty good. Their resiliency is extraordinary. – Michael T. Flynn
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. – George Henry Lewes
As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn’t achieving enough. – Mia Wasikowska
If you set goals for yourself, and you’re like a lot of other people, you probably realize it’s not that your goals are physically impossible that’s keeping you from achieving them; it’s that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It’s physically possible to lose weight. It’s physically possible to exercise more. – Daniel Goldstein
You know, my mum’s always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving. – Paloma Faith
Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons. – Dorothy Denning
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people’s criticisms, carry out your plan. – Paul J. Meyer
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. – Epictetus
Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature. – Germaine Greer
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. – Felix Frankfurter
I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn’t raising them alone. – Gioconda Belli
I learnt a lesson that you mustn’t worry what people think if you are achieving your objective. – Michael Ashcroft
For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them. – Chris Raschka
We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government. – Dennis Cardoza