That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
~By Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. ~
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
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 ~
Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.
~By Hun Sen ~
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
~By Kurt Lewin ~
The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.
~By Martin Bashir ~
Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.
~By Marvin Bower ~
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
~By Max Euwe ~
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.
~By Henryk Sienkiewicz ~
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.
~By James S. Coleman ~
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
~By Mack R. Douglas ~
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
~By David Joseph Schwartz ~
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 ~
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
~By Warren Farrell ~
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
~By Helen Keller ~
We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
~By Lamar Alexander ~
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.
~By James S. Coleman ~
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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 ~
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
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 ~
Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space.
~By Marc Garneau ~
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
~By Sun Tzu ~
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
~By George Washington Carver ~
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
~By Bill Laswell ~
You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
~By Nicholas M. Butler ~
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 ~
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
~By Herbert Croly ~
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
~By Ayn Rand ~
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
~By Loretta Young ~
I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.
~By Alexander Alekhine ~
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
~By Louise Bogan ~
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
~By Kenneth Clark ~
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 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 ~
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
~By Ovid ~
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
~By Bo Bennett ~
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
~By Barry Levinson ~
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 ~
Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.
~By Max Beckmann ~
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 ~
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
~By Frederic Chopin ~
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 ~
We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
~By Maya Angelou ~
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 ~
The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
~By Hannah Cowley ~
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
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 ~
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
~By Claude M. Bristol ~
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 ~
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
~By Benjamin Jowett ~
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 ~
Never mistake activity for achievement.
~By John Wooden ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
~By Brad Sherman ~
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
~By Winston Churchill ~
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.
~By James S. Coleman ~
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
~By David Rockefeller ~
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
~By Jean Rostand ~
I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.
~By David Amram ~
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
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 ~
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 ~
Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.
~By Menachem Mendel Schneerson ~
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 ~
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
~By Giacomo Puccini ~
I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
~By Doug Coupland ~
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 ~
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
~By Marty Meehan ~
And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
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 ~
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
~By Gabriel Marcel ~
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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 ~
Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.
~By David Trimble ~
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
~By Edgar Lee Masters ~
My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
~By Simon Cowell ~
No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.
~By Polykarp Kusch ~
Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
~By George Takei ~
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