High Achievement Quotes

#1. The mathematics of high achievement

Thomas Carlyle

#2. Achievement without fulfillment "High achievement without fulfillment is a broken way of life."

Al Duncan

#3. High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Charles Kettering

#4. little of consequence is ever accomplished alone. High achievement is nearly always a joint effort,

David McCullough

#5. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

J. Oswald Sanders

#6. Those who truly have the spirit of champions are never wholly happy with an easy win. Half the satisfaction stems from knowing that it was the time and the effort you invested that led to your high achievement.

Nicole Haislett

#7. Dare to try, knowing that you will make mistakes. You will fall short again and again, because there is no effort without error. In the end, you will either know the triumph of high achievement, or if you fail, you will fail while daring greatly.

Tessa Afshar

#8. Without making the actual attempt, without trial and strife, there can be no true knowledge, no progress, no high achievement, and no legend.

Brendon Burchard

#9. Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

Grover Cleveland

#10. Wealthy parents today, she argues, are more likely than others to be emotionally distant from their children while at the same time insisting on high levels of achievement, a potentially toxic blend of influences that can create "intense feelings of shame and hopelessness" in affluent children.

Paul Tough

#11. Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements

Albert Bandura

#12. The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

E.D. Hirsch Jr.

#13. If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.

Richie Norton

#14. Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#15. You have the potential to become anything to which you set your mind. You have a mind and a body and a spirit. With these three working together, you can walk the high road that leads to achievement and happiness. But this will require effort and sacrifice and faith.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#16. Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

Tony Clark

#17. Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

Gelsey Kirkland

#18. High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.

John Eliot

#19. What's more, veteran teachers who work long-term in high-poverty schools with low test scores are actually more effective at raising student achievement than is the rotating cast of inexperienced teachers who try these jobs out but flee after one to three years.

Dana Goldstein

#20. We had rising student achievement across the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, real school choice across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go.

Jeb Bush

#21. You can fly as high as you can.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

Marguerite De Navarre

#23. With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that.

Sonia Sotomayor

#24. Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

David Rockefeller

#25. Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges, no coloured belts like judo, so the male yoga expert needs some other kind of visible symbol.

Russell Smith

#26. High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.

Swami Vivekananda

#27. You are an achiever, aim high.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.

Noam Chomsky

#29. I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

Ken Robinson

#30. Always keep in mind its not about how high you can jump, its landing on level ground that matters!

Victoria Addino

#31. The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players.

Michael Owen

#32. One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#33. Though Argaven might be neither sane nor shrewd, he had had long practice in the evasions and challenges and rhetorical subtleties used in conversation by those whose main aim in life was the achievement and maintenance of the shifgrethor relationship on a high level.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#34. The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap.

Robert D. Putnam

#35. You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the Most High.
But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#36. You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

Stella Adler

#37. Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation.

Des Browne