Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Curbishley

It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. It was a night for the fans, but I would swap it for a home win in the league.

Troy Aikman

It's the greatest individual athletic achievement that's ever happened in my life. To be considered one of those players that made an impact or somehow, someway helped define the game itself is a very humbling experience.

Troy Aikman

It's the greatest individual athletic achievement that has happened in my life. To be considered one of those players who made an impact to define the game itself, it's a humbling honor.

It's more like we just go out there and play our best. If that's what happens at the end of the year, then it's a great accomplishment to have. But we're not too worried about it.

It looks like we're one of the only states that has hard evidence. You really can get changes in achievement if you do systematically, sustained work on it.

It's a pretty good achievement in anybody's book. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't be proud.

It's hard to see the Itanium Solutions Alliance accomplishing anything major that the billions already spent by HP, Intel, and the rest haven't. You don't see an x86 Solutions Alliance.

We had a point to prove tonight and it wasn't just to Limestone, it was to the conference and the country. That's what we wanted to do ? get on them early.

Where he was, you're at the pinnacle of success. This is the peak of achievement as far as individuals are concerned, as far as success goes. It is ironic that you can go from there and then you fall so low.

Nelson Mandela

The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.

Nelson Mandela

Education is the great engine to personal development.

Nelson Mandela

If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.

Nelson Mandela

The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.

Niccolo Machiavelli

They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.

Mika Brzezinski

If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.

Paul Farmer

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

Paul Henderson

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

Katrina Kaif

I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.

Noam Chomsky

So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the feudal system and more advanced than anything else in the world, but nothing that we ought to call democracy.

Margot Asquith

Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.

No one can motivate you to do anything. You motivate yourself, based on information you receive and how directly you can relate it to your own potential achievement.

Ken Blanchard

Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.

Ken Robinson

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

That's big because these guys really shoot well. They're not easy to guard. That's a great accomplishment. It's a big step forward for us defensively.

That's an amazing accomplishment for coach and I'm glad that I'm on the team that got coach is 200th victory.

That's amazing. This is a huge meet. It's a big meet for Sam and a big accomplishment to swim with the best talent in the state.

O. Henry

That's a marvelous achievement for George. New Zealanders have a huge amount of respect for him as a person and as a player and to be the fourth person to achieve that milestone is huge and everybody respects and appreciates what he has done.

The kids should be pretty proud of that, it's a nice accomplishment. The thing they've done all year is take it one game at a time and try to get better every day. Hopefully, we can continue to do that.

Benjamin Graham

Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.

R. A. Salvatore

Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden

Prince Charles

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

Phillips Brooks

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

Polykarp Kusch

No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.