Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you look at it from the point of getting better, we achieved that goal. But we fell short of the conference tournament, which was our No. 1 goal.

If you have the right motivation and believe you can do something ... you can pretty much achieve whatever you set your mind to do.

In this case all that has been achieved is that the state has influenced an investment decision in the directions of stocks and bonds rather than property.

I'm really honored to receive this lifetime achievement award.

Jay Wright

I'm real proud of our team. To win the conference over a 16-game schedule is a great accomplishment.

Marilyn Monroe

I'm looking forward to eventually becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. Like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

I'm just so proud of what they've achieved together, that win last Saturday was the best display I've seen in all the time I've been involved in rugby.

Noam Chomsky

Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice.

I'm looking to get back into the squad for the World Cup, ... It will be nice to achieve but I can only do that by playing and hopefully I can do that week and week out.

Conchita Martinez

I'm proud of all I have achieved in this sport. It has been many years of sacrifice in which I have had tough moments. But those you forget, and the ones that remain are the ones that have filled you as a tennis player and as a human being.

Jack O'Connell

I'm particularly concerned about African-American students and English language learners. The answer is not to ignore the achievement gap by giving diplomas to unprepared students.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Impact investing has become a broad umbrella that includes all investing with a focus on both financial return and social impact, but in its best form, impact investing prioritizes impact over returns and achieves outcomes that traditional investing cannot.

Jarkko Nieminen

I'm playing in the quarter-finals. It's my best achievement,

I'm perfectly at peace when I'm on the farm. This is a goal. This is an achievement for us. We had never won a Grade I stakes race prior to the Florida Derby. It's a dream, really, to hit the Kentucky Derby. It's huge.

I'm five wins away from reaching 100 wins, and I want this team to take me there. This is a special team and I'm very confident that we can achieve our goals.

Venus Williams

I'm so proud to have followed her achievements and to have done it in her lifetime.

Nick Hanauer

If Jeff Bezos and I had started Amazon.com in a poverty-stricken corner of Africa, there would have been no job creation because there would be no people to buy the stuff from Amazon.com. The difference here is the American middle class, which is by every measure the most extraordinary economic achievement in the history of the world.

Andy Roddick

If I would have won a match when I was 17, that would have been a great achievement. Now if I don't win the tournament, you guys are going to be writing stuff,

Charles J. Shields

If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language.

Steve Erickson

If Lincoln is among history's truly great men, he didn't achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln's destiny.

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

If money can be saved without impacting student achievement and while still maintaining services to our community then it bears looking into.

Troy Aikman

If I were to be selected for induction, it would be the most meaningful individual achievement of my athletic career. I came into the NFL wanting nothing more than to win a championship. My career unfolded in a way that exceeded all expectations and I am grateful to those who helped me along the way and shared in that success.

I haven't achieved what I need to yet, I have still got unfinished business and I am just going to keep at it.

Zinedine Zidane

I have no doubt ? our players play for some of the best clubs in Europe. I am convinced that our players are only just a little short of what is needed to carry us a long way. We have to do everything we can to achieve that because it will be the last chance for players like me.

I have never understood the concept of over achievement

Dick Gephardt

I'm very proud of what we've achieved ... but there is, however, a large unfinished agenda.

In 1998, we again met our commitments, even though economic conditions in the markets we serve proved to be much worse than originally expected. In 1999, we again expect to deliver double-digit earnings per share growth and we are putting in place the actions necessary to achieve that goal.

Kenny Leon

I never think about putting my stamp on anything, ... If someone watches a play and they don't see the hand of the director in it, if it's seamless and seems effortless, then I will have achieved what I'm after. I want folks to sit and hear August's music.

It's an exciting time for the school and a great achievement.

It's an exceptional achievement for everyone associated with the club, including the supporters.

Kyle Whittingham

It's an accomplishment and a lot of these guys on the team have been a part of all of them, ... It's great for the guys and definitely a very positive thing.

Maria Sharapova

It's an amazing achievement. That's all I really can say.