About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

— Josh Billings

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

— Charles J. Givens

A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.

— Hassan Rouhani

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

— Ken Livingstone

America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.

— Rick Mears

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

— Lee Unkrich

For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

— Adam Grant

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

— Stewart Alsop

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

— Mikhail Lermontov