Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
Oscar Hammerstein II

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
Katharine Anthony

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Alfred North Whitehead

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
George Santayana

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
Ben Stein

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
Nathaniel Branden

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.
Sheena Easton

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
Bill Laswell

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Robert H. Schuller

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Michael Korda

That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.
Scott Hamilton

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
Mack R. Douglas

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
Herbert Croly

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
J. Philippe Rushton

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
Bo Bennett

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.
James S. Coleman

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
Anna Garlin Spencer

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.
Martin Bashir

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold Niebuhr