Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms. (Quote by - Andrew Groves)

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. (Quote by - Michelangelo)

Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace. (Quote by - Margaret Beckett)

When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards. (Quote by - Alexa Mennen)

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desired results? The answer to this you can call strategy. (Quote by - William E. Rothschild)

When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound. (Quote by - Jane Horrocks)

Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)

My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day-even if someone's not paying you to do It. Try to balance your social life with your educational (or professional) life. (Quote by - Giancarlo Esposito)

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level. (Quote by - Andrej Meszaros)

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)

Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it. n(Quote by - Robert J. McCracken)

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. (Quote by - Agatha Christie)

I am hoping we achieve each goal. The guys are having fun and I have seen a lot of improvement. And so far we are achieving the third. (Quote by - Phil Stowers)

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. (Quote by - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)

Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. The more frightened you become, the better your chances of achieving success. (Quote by - Lois Korey)

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly. (Quote by - Mario Puzo)

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)

When we look at our comprehensive plans and we see what the future growth is (projected) for the next 30 years, we are actually achieving that in half the time, I think we have been discovered. (Quote by - Audrey Rosenstein)

The scholarship penalty is not going to be near as harmful to us as the bad publicity for not achieving what we're supposed to achieve. Even though your major sports and all your others are good, we still didn't do what we should have in one. (Quote by - Pete Boone)

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. (Quote by - Gandhi)

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue". (Quote by - Sterling Hayden)

It is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone. (Quote by - Fredrich August von Hayek)

As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace of mind, and confidence in their abilities because they have achieved what they set out to accomplish. Your commitment to achieving what matters most will become the foundation for tremendous accomplishments and contributions. You will become the change you seek to make. (Quote by - Stephen R. Covey)

It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets. (Quote by - Bradley Wiggins)