Achievement Quotes
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We have no doubt that Dallas will be there. We take it as a given. We don't even think there's any question about it.
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Being happy involves both a certain achievement in action and a rational assurance about the outcome.
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There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.
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It's going to tell us important things about who we are and what we are -- medically, socially, and so forth. It's a pretty stunning achievement.
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Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.
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If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
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We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement
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Hard-earned achievement brings a sense of self-worth. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God. A consecrated life is filled with work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes menial, sometimes unappreciated but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, aspires.
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The creation of a classical style was not so much the achievement of an ideal as the reconciliation of conflicting ideals-the striking of an optimum balance between them.
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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.
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We had rising student achievement across the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, real school choice across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go.
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How my achievements mock me!
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I would love to see it in the Hall of Fame, display it somewhere where everybody can see it, because it's about the ultimate memorabilia piece you could own.
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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.
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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.
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The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure.
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The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.
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The greatest achievement of human technology is tools that allow us to create more than we understand.
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I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement.
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A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.
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Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.
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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.
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I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.
