Achievement Quotes - Page 4

Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement.

Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for its own benefit and for that of the natural world, all ecological problems will have their roots in social problems.

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.

The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is.

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

Now I am a genius; before that I was a drudge.

You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds.

We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

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.

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

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.

Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals

The Montreal Protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is a global problem, both in terms of its causes and its effects. The protocol is the result of an extraordinary process of scientific study, negotiations among representatives of the business and environmental communities, and international diplomacy. It is a monumental achievement.

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.