Quotes About Achievement

Derek Jeter

Gary never got tired of rubbing it in. Derek had beaten him on a test only once,

This girl (Stephanie) is but a few months away from her seventeenth birthday and already she has saved the world and killed a god. What have you done?

Her parents were sitting at the table, staring at the laptop. She grinned. "You get it working?

Nothing can be achieved without knowledge and yet everything can be achieved just through a pure heart.

Fulfillment is structured in achievement, Achievement is structured in action, Action is structured in thinking, Thinking is structured in knowledge, Knowledge is structured in consciousness

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

I die with a joyful heart in the knowledge of our infinite achievements and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name.

I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.

If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.

For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

These things shall be! A loftier race Than e'er the world hath known shall rise, With flame of freedom in their souls, And light of knowledge in their eyes.

Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.