Achievement Quotes - Page 48

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

It's gonna be one of the great achievements of this administration.

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.

Great achievement goes through, not around, discouragement. Is there a roadblock in my way, keeping me from something I want to achieve? Am I discouraged? I understand now that discouragement often precedes achievement. Instead of retreating from the roadblock or seeking a way around it, I will boldly punch a hole through it and continue toward my goal.

The fundamental problem is that the gap in educational achievement, which is a key in our technological economy, is due in my opinion - and the opinion of many, including Arne Duncan, our secretary of education - to the fact that the families of the poor who are not very educated are not talking to their children, interacting with their children, insisting they do their homework and so on.

Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some respect to people outside it; the great failure of Western Culture is to deny that walls are inevitable or important.

The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.

Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace.

I could really care less about the TV and the fame, it's all about that lifetime achievement of becoming a world champion.

It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.

..I heard Ori Kam and was deeply impressed with his achievements as a violist. His technical and interpretive skills are truly unique. I see a great future for him.

Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.

I consider every step towards doing what you love an achievement.

I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement.

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.

Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?

The Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, I want to improve it. I want to build on it, get the costs down, get prescription drug costs down. Senator Sanders wants us to start all over again. This was a major achievement of President [Barack] Obama, of our country. It is helping people right now.

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.