Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
~By Bo Bennett ~
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 ~
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
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 ~
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 ~
At the same time I was being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy.
~By Etta James ~
I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
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 ~
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
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 ~
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
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 ~
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
~By Max Euwe ~
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
~By Napolean Hill ~
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 ~
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
~By Robert Bork ~
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 ~
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
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. ~
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
~By Ben Stein ~
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
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 ~
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
~By Loretta Young ~
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
~By Richard Wagner ~
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 ~
I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.
~By Bo Jackson ~
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.
~By Herbert Croly ~
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 ~
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 ~
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
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 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 ~
Big thinking precedes great achievement.
~By Wilferd A. Peterson ~
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 ~
In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.
~By Michael Lewis ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
~By Gary Cooper ~
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 ~
I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
~By Brian May ~
Never mistake activity for achievement.
~By John Wooden ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
~By Pearl Bailey ~
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
~By Edward de Bono ~
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 ~
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
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 ~
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
~By Alice Koller ~
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
~By Edgar Lee Masters ~
My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.
~By Marilyn Horne ~
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
All great achievements require time.
~By Maya Angelou ~
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
~By Bo Bennett ~
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 ~
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 ~
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.
~By Mark Foley ~
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
~By Theodore Isaac Rubin ~
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
~By Giacomo Puccini ~
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
~By Tiger Woods ~
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 higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.
~By James S. Coleman ~
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
~By Cesar Chavez ~
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 ~
The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.
~By Charles J. Givens ~
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 ~
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
~By Denis Waitley ~
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 ~
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.
~By Marc Garneau ~
Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
~By Willard Libby ~
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 ~
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 ~
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
~By Vernon L. Smith ~
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 don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
~By Shirley Chisholm ~
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.
~By James H. Breasted ~
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
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 ~
I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.
~By Aishwarya Rai ~
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