Academic Achievement Quotes

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 03, 2014

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• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.142, Penguin

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• Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being.

  William Watson Purkey

  School, Achievement, Attendance

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• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1951). “Commencement Addresses”

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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• Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

  Caroline Knapp

  Teacher, Order, Achievement

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.91, Dial Press

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• I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart.

  Satish Kumar

  Heart, Compassion, Generosity

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.

  Nel Noddings

  Children, Educational, Believe

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• As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

  Brad Sherman

  Achievement, Athletic, Champion

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• In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Achievement, Adults

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• When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Smart, School, Simple

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, 2005.

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• There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Motivation, Balance, Trying

  "Videotaped remarks shed light on Sotomayor" by Charlie Savage, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I think for what success looks like for me, it is a world in which you can look at the achievement scores, the academic scores, of any school anywhere in this country [the USA], and you wouldn't be able to look at the score and determine what the racial makeup or the socioeconomic makeup of that school is simply because of the academic achievement levels.

  Michelle Rhee

  Country, School, Makeup

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.

  David Elkind

  Sports, Children, Taken

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• When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Taken, College, Men

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.26, Knopf

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• I think the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all its righteousness and majesty. High-achieving colleagues attempting to get jobs for their high-achieving children. Foundation executives doing fine and noble things. Prizes, of course, and high academic achievement.

  Thomas Frank

  Jobs, Children, Opportunity

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as likely to read for pleasure, have strengthened problem-solving and critical thinking skills, are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, four times more likely to participate in a math and science fair.

  Quincy Jones

  Art, Math, Thinking

  "Arts Education in America" by Quincy Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2009.

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• (F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement.

  Walter E. Williams

  Years, Achievement, Crow

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• We found out that the young people who had a substantial number of lessons in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Curriculum ... not only did better in terms of people skills, that they managed their emotions, they were less violent and more caring, but they actually did better on their academic achievement tests.

  Linda Lantieri

  Caring, Skills, Numbers

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• 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

  School, Cities, Achievement

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• With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Motivation, School, Yale

  "Videotaped remarks shed light on Sotomayor" by Charlie Savage, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2009.

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