Best achievement & chance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.”

Firsts Has Beens Made Chance Achievement Direct Diners

“The person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires”

Persons Desire Chance Achieve Achievement Outcomes Flexibility

Book:Life Is a Series of Presentations: Eight Ways to Inspire, Inform, and Influence Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime

Source: Life Is a Series of Presentations: Eight Ways to Inspire, Inform, and Influence Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime

“If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.”

Ifs Humans Seems Spiritual Values Universe Term Chance Existence Development Achievement Highest Endure Mortals Stable Irrational Human Existence Spiritual Values

Book:Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

“Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.”

Chance Achievement Consequence Uncomfortable

Author:Steve Backley

“It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.”

Source: Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

“If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Looks Bigs Chance Records Groups Achieve Achievement Very Good Candidates Big Things Small Things Good Chance

Author:Edmund Hillary

“When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a little irritation - 'In the field of observation in science, fortune only favours the prepared mind.' It is not by chance that it is always the great scientists who have the luck.”

Mind Littles Chance Fields Achievement Scientist Luck Fortune Prepared Observation Favour Irritation Great Achievement Great Scientist Pasteur

Book:The Unnatural Nature of Science

Source: The Unnatural Nature of Science

“Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement.”

Opportunity Born Chance Demand Equal Achievement Fairs Method Conviction Formulas Individualism Rooted Equal Opportunity

Book:American Individualism

Source: American Individualism

“To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives me the best chance to do that? And I'm pretty darn sure that if America is a just society and treating people well right now, irrespective of past wrongs, that I'm going to close a big chunk of that gap. I've seen it.”

People Ifs Giving Firsts Wells Bigs America Past Three Wealth Chance Right Now Achievement Give Me Gaps Quarters Chunks Achievement Gap Past Wrongs

Author:Barack Obama

“I think a book-length poem stands about as good a chance as a collection of individual poems in reaching its field of ears. This does not mean I have not found some of them too daunting to read all the way through, but it would seem there ought to be some ambition on the writer's part to create a work that would be "a read" all the way through. If not, all the pleasure belongs to the maker, and that in itself is something, an achievement.”

Thinking Mean Individual Chance Pleasure Achievement Ambition

Author:C.D. Wright

“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.”

Men Chance Design Achievement Owing Great Achievement

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

Book:The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

“One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the prejudice that would deny them a chance to even try. It is the same prejudice that insists all those destined for success must be cast from the same mold as those who have succeeded before them, a view that experience has already proven a fallacy.”

“It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.”

“Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.”

Thinking Success Games Chance Economy Achieve Masters Succeed Achievement Concepts Odds Congratulations Achieving Success Against All Odds Against The Odds Personal Achievement Odds Against You

Author:Robert Foster Bennett

“A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently”

People Ifs Social Chance Progress Achievement Diversity Approach Economics Hitting Undertakings Good Chance

Author:Richard Posner

“There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods.”

Men World Hands Chance Pleasure He Man Achievement Towns Woods Glad Welcome Desert Sand Goods Farmers Aisle Turned Down Hay

Author:Walt Whitman

“We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.”

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