Top 413 Grades Quotes & Sayings

I got good grades. I played sports.

One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.

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.

God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions, and some history. None of the books covering grades 1 through 4 contain one word referring to any religious activity in contemporary American life.

I never had good grades until I dropped out of religion. And then suddenly, my grades went up.

Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.

My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all? So my grades weren't great, but I feel like, is there any other way that I could have gotten into NYU? I don't know. I think that it definitely worked in my favor in some ways.

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote.

I was a class clown, never got good grades.

In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy.

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.

Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year'.

I knew I had to get my grades so that I could focus on football.

Both my girls have always made great grades in school.

I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first.

Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if teachers do not give the grades they think their kids deserve. By that point, it's hard to tell whose grades they are.

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

If you are still in school, do not neglect your grades. Internships and other activities are fine, but when legal employers have to decide who to interview, grades play a big role in determining who makes that cut and who doesn't.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes.

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.

I've never understood cheating, probably because I never cared much about my grades. I instinctively knew that the grades didn't measure anything meaningful - usually just my ability to quickly memorize information I'd just as quickly forget.

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'

Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

In Jamaica we had the English way of schooling from the age of four, so when I got to America I was already a few years advanced because I started school at the age of three-and-a-half rather than six and my grades moved up accordingly. In America, they start you at school at six because the grades are different. I had to take a test and they didn't know what to do with me. It wasn't that I was any smarter; I had just started younger. All of a sudden I was jumped from eighth to tenth grade. They said I was very smart, but I was only smart in languages, really.

Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out.

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

I kind of always did get good grades.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

I always got good grades; I just didn't go to school much. I didn't like it.

I had poor eyesight when I was young and despite that, I was making good grades.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

Because grades in climbing are subjective, I am fan of making big gaps between climbing grades.

I made good grades in school.

I had no money, no grades, no athletic ability. Nothing but hope.

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.

My long-held fear is that Mr. Obama is hiding something about his education. During the endless 2008 campaign, Mr. Obama would not release his college grades. Given that President George W. Bush and Sens. Al Gore and John Kerry all had proved mediocre grades were no impediment to a presidential bid, Mr. Obama likely had other concerns.

I'm passionate about schoolwork because I don't like getting bad grades.

As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.

I don't really think I got the full high school experience, only because when I got to high school for the first year, it was grades 9-10. We didn't have older grades. But besides that, it was normal. It was a regular public school. We didn't have much going on. It wasn't too crazy.

The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.