Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 195

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
 Vernon L. Smith
The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day
All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.
 Stephen Spender
My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling.
 Richard Rodriguez
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
 Helen Rowland
At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can identify what their purposes were and realize better ways to achieve those purposes.
 M. H. Abrams
The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
 Tim Ferriss
I spend a lot of time on the 'Glee' set. A lot of time. Luckily we have to dance and rehearse, so we're always moving, but having such a tight schedule can make it hard to find the time to exercise. It's definitely a struggle!
 Jenna Ushkowitz
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
 Bill Moyers
God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.
God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.
If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!
 Grace Hopper
It is your own habits of thinking which give you mastery in any field of achievement
 David Wolfe
The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.
 Harry Wong
The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.
 Frank Lowy
The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.
 Periander
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
No great achievement is possible without persistent work.
I'm going to take a series of actions on day one to protect American workers.
The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.
The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.
 James H. Cone
Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?
 Gayle Forman