Achievement Quotes

The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

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.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

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.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

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.

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.