Quotes About Achievement

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build a Fortune 500 company at Symantec.

Dr. Ben Carson has the most moving personal narrative in modern presidential politics. His mother, one of 24 children, had only a third-grade education. She was married at age 13, bore Ben and his brother, and then raised the boys as an impoverished single mother in Detroit. As a young boy, Carson was a terrible student.

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.

I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.

The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'

I was a decent student but not a great student.

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.

All through the student years, I was at the top of my class although I was two years younger than everybody else.

I've been able to pay the bills. I've been able to pay off my student loans. I was a homeowner before anything happened in the larger public eye.

For millions of Americans, federally subsidized student loans and Pell Grants are an important resource for us to get ahead so we can achieve the American dream.

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

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

I think the world is run by 'C' students.

And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn't say the ones at my school were less capable. They could've been there.

The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.

Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.