Achievement Quotes

It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
Lucy Powell

Government, Political, Saying

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Nicholas M. Butler

Courage, True, Optimism

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
Nathaniel Branden

Health, Expression, Cause

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
Alan Shepard

Family, School, Sense

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.
Mike Huckabee

Great, Respect, Become

The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
Gary Cooper

Made, Friends, Proud

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.
Christopher Reeve

Yourself, Ugly, Whether

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

Social, Student, Students

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

Real, Sense, London

That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.
Scott Hamilton

Country, Wonderful, Everyone

It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.
John Hawkes

Saying, Done, Makes

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
Hu Shih

Death, Knowledge, Self

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Powell Clayton

Freedom, Rather, Adjustment

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
Warren Farrell

Men, Sports, Focus

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.
Andrew Wiles

Nothing, Hard, Mean

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

Energy, Knowing, Lies

Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.
Henning Mankell

End, Through, Wonderful

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.
David Millar

Romantic, End, Fight

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.
Roger Bannister

Work, School, Parents

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.
Sebastian Vettel

Car, Simply, Racing

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
Simon Cowell

Success, Made, Artists

I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.
Anna Paquin

Alone, Amazing, Career

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.
Brian Ferneyhough

Respect, Doubt, Individual

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Claude M. Bristol

Success, Great, Thought

Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Energy, Nation, Scientific

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.
Candace Bushnell

Life, Important, Woman

The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.
John Hume

School, Through, Two

Your greatest achievement is to love me.
Prince Charles

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.
Michael Gove

Education, Children, Real

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
Brian May

Guitar, Put, Big

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