Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard Baruch

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
James Lane Allen

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.
John Leonard

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
Donald Rumsfeld

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Gary Ryan Blair

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
W. Clement Stone

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Vinoba Bhave

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
Hassan Nasrallah

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen King

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.
John McGraw

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Alfred North Whitehead

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Victor Hugo

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Ambrose Bierce

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
Constantin Brancusi

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
Ernest Shackleton

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.
John Keegan

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
Swami Sivananda