Quotes about Achievement

Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.