Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.
You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.
For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.
The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.
In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.
Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.
Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.
From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
To me, life is huge and thrilling and exciting and explosive and loud. If I can make music that communicates that and reflects that, then that's an achievement.
It's so important for me to do my own stunts. The sense of achievement is so immense. But the studios don't want to take the risk.
My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.
If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.
The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.
Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.
Some people want everything to be perfect before they're willing to commit... But commitment always precedes achievement.
Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
I don't see the relevance in a teacher becoming a member of the Rotary Club, how that is going to improve student achievement.
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.
I'm proud of my works. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to me.
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills
Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.
I don't know why there is still any barrier between men and women in terms of achievement and success.
It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.
Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. It is the key to all fulfillment and achievement.
It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.
The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.
Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.
The real story of Netflix is complicated: an epic tale full of struggle, disappointment, drama, humor, and achievement.
Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.
The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.
Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.
The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.
sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.
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