Achieve

Famous quotes containing the word achieve:

“You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

“A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.”
—Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968)

“Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.”
—Harriet Rosenstein (b. 1932)