The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.
~By Rick Rubin ~
Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.
~By James S. Coleman ~
Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.
~By Pete McCloskey ~
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.
~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
~By Robertson Davies ~
The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.
~By Martin Bashir ~
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
~By Shirley Chisholm ~
You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.
~By Susan Taylor ~
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.
~By Robert Byrd ~
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
All great achievements require time.
~By Maya Angelou ~
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
~By David Joseph Schwartz ~
It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.
~By James S. Coleman ~
I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
~By Alan Shepard ~
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
~By Nathaniel Branden ~
If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
~By Oscar Hammerstein II ~
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
~By Ayn Rand ~
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
~By Mack R. Douglas ~
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
~By Walter Legge ~
Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
~By Willard Libby ~
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.
~By Eyvind Johnson ~
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.
~By Nelson Goodman ~
Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.
~By Sheena Easton ~
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.
~By Bo Bennett ~
It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
~By Fred Allen ~
The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1.
~By Jon Stewart ~
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
~By Loretta Young ~
More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted.
~By Guy Forget ~
Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
~By Warren Farrell ~
With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
~By George Lucas ~
Now, 0 for 50 would be a historic achievement on any other team, but on the Cubs it is usually called September.
~By Bernie Lincicome ~
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
~By Adam Ant ~
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
~By Denis Waitley ~
We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and to look at how Asean can maintain its leading role in regional and international cooperation.
~By Hassanal Bolkiah ~
And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
~By Milton Friedman ~
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
~By George Santayana ~
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
~By Marc Ribot ~
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
~By Carl Rogers ~
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
~By Arthur Holly Compton ~
I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
~By Gavin DeGraw ~
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
~By Eric Butterworth ~
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.
~By Andrew Wiles ~
Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.
~By Juliette G. Low ~
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
~By Giacomo Puccini ~
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
~By Nido Qubein ~
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
~By Harold Taylor ~
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.
~By Hun Sen ~
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
~By Ben Stein ~
Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.
~By Louis Dudek ~
The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.
~By James Loeb ~
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
Never mistake activity for achievement.
~By John Wooden ~
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party.
~By Paul Martin ~
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
~By Nicholas M. Butler ~
I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.
~By Alicia Machado ~
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
~By Abdul Kalam ~
There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
~By James Allen ~
We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.
~By James S. Coleman ~
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
~By Helen Hayes ~
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.
~By Kim Smith ~
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
~By Maya Angelou ~
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
~By Steve Prefontaine ~
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
~By Benjamin F. Fairless ~
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