Quotes About Achievement

Twenty-five years had whisked by with its challenges and triumphs. Ida now had a medical school, a nursing school, and a large hospital, but still there was much more to be done. Ida found herself wondering what her next challenge would be.

In 1924, at thirty-two years old, she became the first woman in Holland to be certified as a watchmaker.

If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

All in all, Maggy concluded, she had done right. Tocohol knew that she could not see the ship from here, so Maggy had not lied to a friend. She had told a pleasing story, and she was very proud of her new ability.

To finish first you have to first finish.

The already privileged receive privileged educations. The disadvantaged receive inferior educations, and then we blame them for their failure.

I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.

Beauty opened all the doors it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

Life does not always yield its fruit easily, and when we cannot get to the top branches where the best and juiciest pieces cling, we must shake the tree. Shake it hard,

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

Joe's scientific life is defined by these significant near misses… He was Shackleton many times, almost the first: almost the first to see the big bang, almost the first to patent the laser, almost the first to detect gravitational waves. Famous for nearly getting there.

He is still all potential. The potential to be great, the potential to be mad. He will achieve both magnificently.

My grandfather was sparing in his praise of apprentices. My grandfather insisted we think for ourselves and achieve for our own satisfaction. Deep study of the mysteries were their own tough path, he always said. To live for the approval of others was a pitfall that begged a false turning.

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.

There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.

When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there.

There is no failure unless you quit. Only success not yet won. ~Haghuf, in Power of the Dance

I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.

Doing things is not the same as getting things done.

By 12th grade, the average black or Hispanic is reading and doing math at the level of the average white 8th-grader. 38

By 1997, when Kansas City finally gave up, it had the most extravagant schools in the country, but the percentage of whites was lower than ever and blacks' test scores had not budged.

In some cases, blacks may have quickly caught up with the mainstream, but all too often they did not. What might have been intended as a temporary relaxation of standards hardened into permanent racial preferences. The gap in black/white achievement refused to go away, and what came to look more and more like reverse racial discrimination had to be justified by claiming that the persistent racial gap in achievement could be due only to persistent white racism.