Achievement Quotes

• If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Because
  • Approach
  • Immortality

• Those who truly have the spirit of champions are never wholly happy with an easy win. Half the satisfaction stems from knowing that it was the time and the effort you invested that led to your high achievement.

  

  Nicole Haislett
  • Effort
  • Achievement
  • Champion

• It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Humanity
  • Achievement
  • Brutality

• I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Reading
  • Ignorance
  • Achievement

• "Normal science" means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation for its further practice.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Science
  • Past
  • Community

• Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • Today
  • Purpose
  • Achievement

• Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.

  

  Chaz Brenchley
  • Real
  • Desire
  • Waiting

• Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.

  

  Rick Perry
  • School
  • Strong
  • Education

• It is only an illusion that time is running out. This is where the problem of fear arises. We become anxious that "I don't have enough time and I have to do everything quickly." We need to turn our attention away from results, achievements and outcomes.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Running
  • Attention
  • Problem

• Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Soul
  • Achievement
  • God's chariots

• A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Learning
  • Engagement
  • Performing

• We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

  

  George Will
  • Wall
  • Achievement
  • Socialism

• Millennials are first and foremost problem solvers. They are optimistic. They are well educated. They are creative. They are open to change. They are learners. They are technologically savvy. They are open-minded. They are imaginative. They think third-way. They want to achieve. They want to contribute. They are flexible. They are achievement oriented.

  

  Chip Espinoza
  • Problem
  • Creative
  • Achieve

• Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Achievement
  • Costs

• Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Effort
  • Ability
  • Achievement

• I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Achievement

• Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.

  

  George Sarton
  • Progress
  • Causes
  • Immortal

• How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?

  

  Celestine Sibley
  • Advice
  • Secret
  • Stubborn

• So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

  

  Ernest Llewellyn Woodward
  • Heaven
  • Achievement
  • Human Race

• Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Enough
  • Knows
  • Achieve

• The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to everyday think what can be done better tomorrow. Stay hungry.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Achievement
  • Poison
  • Antidote

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