Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.

Ezra Taft Benson

Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.

Ellen Key

Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.

Mark Twain

The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it

Mark Twain

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Anne Sullivan

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Virginia Hey

It's scary for me to act. It's terrifying. But I must be addicted to the adrenaline rush of the fear. It's like bungee jumping, I suppose. But after I accomplish it, I get this great sense of satisfaction and an overwhelming feeling of well being.

John C. Calhoun

I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.

Aron Ralston

Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

Bill Vaughan

What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

P. J. O'Rourke

The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.

We need to keep our confidence up. If we start over and play well we can still accomplish what we set out to.

E. B. White

We have work crews, but we do a lot of organizing. People there want to help and neighbors get together and accomplish a lot. We give them some direction, and try to get them the building supplies and safety equipment they need.

We just didn't hit enough shots in overtime. Competitively, this loss hurts. But objectively, this team did great things this year and worked very hard to accomplish what they did. I am just really proud of them.

Bruce Williams

We played one of our best games of the year and one of our goals to start the season was to end with a winning season. We were able to accomplish that with a victory tonight.

Barack Obama

We can't accomplish what we need to accomplish by across-the-board cuts, because some of those across-the-board cuts would mean 5 percent cuts in food stamps or 5 percent cuts in Medicaid precisely at a time when the poor are being burdened,

Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.

We'll practice that day. We may get together (again) in the summer before the game and try to accomplish some things.

We have a good number of girls out. We have some girls who took a year off and now are back to help the team accomplish goals we have set for the year. We are expecting a good season.

We have a lot of pride in what we're trying to accomplish and it's nice when other people notice.

We've had four guys now accomplish it. That shows our history and our tradition, but we want to move forward with it.

Doug Wilson

We have more things to accomplish and more challenges ahead of us. We're building this to be a championship team and nothing less. You don't get ahead of yourself in any of that. I just know that I believe in these players. I believe in them strongly and that's why we gave them the opportunities.

We're working every avenue to do whatever we can to get things back in order. We're going to accomplish the mission of getting the water out of the city.

We have a lot more we want to accomplish. Our team has a lot more to do and have not reached our top. It was exciting to accomplish our goal this year.

While the engine burn abort was unfortunate, we still expect to accomplish the rendezvous objectives, ... We expect that the later rendezvous date will not diminish the overall science return.

Abraham Lincoln

You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Robert Collier

You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish -- if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Brian Baker

I think I've always had it in me, ... I just haven't quite been able to put it together for a whole match. Ever since I was a little kid, you always dream about being Top 10 in the world and winning a Grand Slam. I know that's a long way away right now, but hopefully with a lot of hard work, getting a little bit better, maybe I can accomplish those things down the road.

Alexander McCall Smith

I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.

It is difficult. We're looking at a team of all but two seniors that, I hope, have some great expectations of what we would like to accomplish in the future. I'd like to see this team take it to a different level, play with the monkey off their back and have some fun.

Managing expectations is our main thing this week. We need to play confidently, but also understand we're trying to accomplish our own goals. If we play own game, we can win the golf tournament.

Lisa Riley

I'm hoping to accomplish how to live free, how to be completely honest with myself, how to live. Just get my life structured.

Billy Kennedy

I'm here to win. I know that, I understand that, and I'm excited about the expectations and the vision of this University. It also meets the vision I have for what I want to do and accomplish here at Murray State University.