Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is not a partisan committee. The congressman has never treated it like that, and its many achievements are reflective of that commitment.

Pearl Bailey

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

Viktor E. Frankl

For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

Vanna Bonta

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.

Sonia Gandhi

My complaint with Dr Singh is that he sometimes does not highlight his achievements enough.

Tony Robbins

Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent

Robert Anthony

Belief is the cornerstone of all the great achievements since the beginning of time.

Regina Brett

It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.

Tom Lehrer

And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

Tommy Tune

Success comes from having a fulfilling experience and being inside the moment of that experience. Success does not come in retrospect or as a recollection or even as an evaluation from others. lt's not something that you can physically hold onto or repeat at will. Only when you acknowledge the special moments can you truly feel the effects of your most wonderful achievements.

Steve Backley

For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.

Thomas Carlyle

The mathematics of high achievement

Thomas Carlyle

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Tony Clark

Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

Steven Johnson

It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.

Shahrukh Khan

Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to be an Indian.

Susan L. Taylor

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

Sydney J. Harris

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The house praises the carpenter.

Lin Yutang

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

Ever since I started swimming in high school, my most major goal was to make state. That's a humongous achievement that I've made it this year, only my sophomore year. Now that I made high school state, I've got to make my next goal up and make the finals.

Ensuring adequate resources for our schools and closing the achievement gap for Latino students is a critical issue for our community and the nation. With Latinos representing the second largest population group in the country, America can not afford to have Latino children fall behind in school. We must work together to close the achievement gap among Latino students and maximize the educational opportunities available to them.

Bill Gates

Encore implies that life is not a continuous process, that there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life. For me, there are a lot of exciting things in front of me at Microsoft, things that we want to see if we can make ha

Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

Bob Costas

Baseball is in a horrible position. Baseball could be celebrating this achievement while (questioning) it. ... (Selig) is in a delicate position. But it comes with the territory.

Vera Brittain

At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.

At this moment we're disappointed. To say you're one of the final eight teams is a great accomplishment. At this point in time it feels terrible. Tomorrow it will feel a little bit better, and the day after that it will feel a little bit better.

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

Ellen Malcolm

Dina Titus is an enormously effective state senator, with a record of achievement that has improved the lives of Nevadans,

Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

We are as excited as we can be for Adam. To be the first player selected is an outstanding achievement and a testament to the work Adam put in this past year.

Jeb Bush

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.