Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris has had a fantastic weekend. To finish in the top six on his first Monte Carlo is a major achievement and he's done it at a very respectable pace.

Prince William

I looked up to her because (of) what an achievement it was to live to 101.

My goal for the Championship changed a lot from being less personal accomplishment to more team driven, but unfortunately we fell just short of that goal.

Michael Taylor

No other team has done it before, and it would be a great accomplishment for Huntington High. Before this year, no Huntington team had ever won back-to-back titles.

Number one, the best anti-poverty program is a job, ... And second, it is education. We are closing the achievement gap between black, Hispanic and white children.

Now that we've got a good system in place, the hope is that student achievement will follow suit.

Given the fact that more than 50 years since the first sub-four-minute mile, we still celebrate an athlete's first time under that barrier, Don's achievement remains remarkable,

Getting to the second round is a real accomplishment for this team, and I'm happy we made it this far. I think girls played real well, especially since Revere is the ranked fifth in the state of Ohio (in Division II).

Steve Wynn

Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.

Paul Jewell

Getting in the Premiership with this club was a wonderful achievement for everybody - and if we can manage to stay in it, then that would be even greater. This is a bit of a bonus really.

Bud Collins

Gabriela and Patrick are champions of broad, magnetic appeal. Gianni is a scholar of broad journalistic and literary accomplishment. They represent a worldwide spread Australia, Argentina and Italy.

Steve Yzerman

If anything, it shows how good he was because he played probably four or five years less than I did. So, that's quite an achievement by him than anything I've done.

W. S. Gilbert

I can think of no one more deserving of this year's SAG Life Achievement award than Shirley Temple Black,

I do not understand why people ask for Leaving CERTIFICATE while leaving.... is leaving an achievement?

I could sense signs of confidence in training on Friday. We did a professional job and we've continued our winning mentality. I'm very proud with what is an exceptional achievement for everyone at the club.

Pablo Picasso

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

Calvin Coolidge

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

Carl von Clausewitz

Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.

Alain de Botton

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.

Alain de Botton

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

Alain de Botton

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.

Charles Colson

God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience.

Brad Sherman

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

Bonnie Wright

I remember being cast in the first "Harry Potter" film and being quite amused, because I was imagining that someone who'd been acting since they'd been crawling would be cast. The faith and trust that they'd put into everyone actually enabled you to gain confidence back, in the sense of feeling that sense of achievement, which is incredibly hard when you're young.

Barry Levinson

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

Edmund Hillary

If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.

Eckhart Tolle

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

Henry Petroski

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Albert Camus

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

Andrew Sarris

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

Ambrose Bierce

COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.