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"No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves."
"We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks"
"Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it."
"I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me."
"We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great."
"You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness."
"Nothing in this life worth achieving is easy, nor is it impossible."
"Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals."
"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."
"What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself."
"You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever."
"If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it."
"Most people know how to set goals; few know how to achieve them."
"You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay."
"Who will you have to become, to achieve all you want?"
"On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace."
"A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything."
"If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve."
"Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly."
"The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it."
