Quotes About Achievement

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

I was the good girl. The straight A student, on the honour roll, part of the choir... I played the cello badly. I did plays.

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

I went to a college prep high school in St. Louis, Missouri. When I graduated from school, I owned this thing called the Headmaster's Cup, and the Headmaster's Cup is for the student who exemplifies the spirit of the institution and is recognized by the faculty and administration.

In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

I'm not just a dumb basketball player who got lucky and graduated from college. My ratio for professor to student was nine-to-one so it wasn't like I wasn't going to class. I was going to class every day.

Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to Professor Antony Hewish and Professor Martin Ryle. At the time, science was still perceived as being carried out by distinguished men.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

I was a good student, but I didn't like school.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.

I was a good student, but I was the biggest procrastinator.

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

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.

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.