Academic success depends on research and publications. — Philip Zimbardo
Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning. — Alfie Kohn
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work. — Roger Bannister
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. — Gavin Newsom
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement. — James S. Coleman
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them. — Robert Kiyosaki
Grades won't matter much, but energy for learning will. — Sahil Bloom
Every student has the ability to be a successful learner. — Warren G. Harding
Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated. — Major Owens
A good education is another name for happiness. — Ann Plato
There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others — Phil Heath
Nothing is more important than a good education. — Roy Wilkins
You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out. — Roy Romer
I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out. — Ellen Ochoa
Short Academic Success Quotes
Achievement results from work realizing ambition. — Adam Ant
Education is not received. It is achieved. — Unknown
Education is not received. It is achieved. — Albert Einstein
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus
The importance of education plays a huge role. — Wes Moore
Success is measured by personal happiness. — Usher
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. — Paul E. Gray
Achievement has no color — Abraham Lincoln
Academic Success Image Quotes
The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lover of all kinds.
Academic Achievement Quotes
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar
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
(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
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
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
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
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
My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy. — Ram Dass
I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble. — Peter Hollingworth
Student Success Quotes
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. — William Arthur Ward
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself. — Brian Tracy
Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse. — Joseph Prince
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. — Nicholas Murray Butler
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. — Robert Orben
Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one. — Bill Gates
If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. — Charles Kendall Adams
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. — Abdul Kalam
College Success Quotes
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts
Never underestimate the upside of a person with a positive attitude. A college dropout with a positive attitude will go further in life than an MBA grad with a negative attitude. Attitude matters. — Patrick Bet-David
I do a little sign on the court every time i make a shot or a good pass and i pound my chest and point to the sky - it symbolizes that i have a heart for God. It’s something that my mom and I came up with in college and I do it every time I step on the floor as a reminder of who i’m playing for. — Stephen Curry
You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. — Shia LaBeouf
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles. — Paul McAllister
You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard. — Farrah Gray
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. — Bear Bryant
Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking. — David J. Schwartz
A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard. — Randy Pausch
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals. — Leonard Boswell
Academic Excellence Quotes
I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got tenure early on. I really didn't deserve this; I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. — Paul Lansky
There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God. — Theodore Hesburgh
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. — Aristotle
Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners. — E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world. — Dolly Parton
Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent. — Walter E. Williams
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. — Michelle Malkin
I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of papers published or patents received. Outsiders who swoop in to count beans and make up lists based on statistics have little sense of what excellence is. — Henry Rosovsky
Academic Education Quotes
So please, parents, teachers and other custodians of our children’s future, let us not confine our children to a syllabus. Let us expose them to life, and of course, also to academics. Let us not only count their marks, but also, make their life count. — Mahatria Ra
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. — Thomas Sowell
In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction. — Elliot W. Eisner
Not many academics do labor education. Why not? The need is great. This is where the youth are so important. If faculty were as engaged as young students are in anti sweatshop campaigns, prison campaigns, etc., it would be a good thing. — Michael Yates
I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality. — Halton Arp
The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom. — William O. Douglas
I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old. — Leonard Susskind
Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons. — Vaclav Smil
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. — Ken Robinson
Student Achievement Quotes
The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher. — Harry Wong
It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement. — Harry Wong
Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up. — Carol S. Dweck
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition. — Richard A. Clarke
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition. — Richard Clark
Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get better at it. — Jim Trelease
Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning's awakening full of potential and cheery portent. — Nick Offerman
Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will. — Michael N. Castle
1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan — Mas Oyama
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude. — Jesse Jackson
At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character. — Howard W. Hunter
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. — Knute Rockne
There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company. — Dave Ulrich
We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success. — Gunter Pauli
Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success. — Robert Sternberg
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. — Larry Fink
One of the greatest predictors of academic success that exist is the emotional stability of the home. So if parents are interested in education reform, they should also be interested in how they conduct themselves in front of their children. If they are homeschooling their kids, they are even more exposed, so the idea is even more important. — John Medina
I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write, really, about any of that - rather the institutional structures I've negotiated my way through, with healthy doses of luck, provide a breathing, parasitic glimpse into the bureaucratic monolith of the creative-degree machine. — Davis Schneiderman
If we want to identify the great success of American research universities, and that success goes far beyond Harvard, we have to come back to the question of governance. Excellence requires a firewall between trusteeship, or government ministries, and the academic decision-making process. This American concept of shared governance wherein the faculty are engaged in running the university as part of a collaboration with the other stakeholders. — Henry Rosovsky
Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. History may be written by academics but it's rarely created by them. — Unknown
Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university. — James E. Rogers
You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful. — Andrew Lloyd Webber
There is a common misconception that intelligence is synonymous with IQ. "Intelligence Quotient" or IQ was originally built to predict the academic aptitude of schoolchildren, and is nothing more than a measure of the skills needed for academic success. Intelligence, however, is a much broader concept that encompasses a person's level of skill for any of a number of subjects. — Justin Menkes
I decided that after returning to the US to pursue an academic career I would eventually study the life of Ho Chi Minh to find the secret of his success. — William J. Duiker
[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success. — Shefali Tsabary
There are, however, many challenges to Asian universities. First, academic freedom, in all senses, is much more critical to the success of a university than how much money is spent on infrastructure or on hiring big names. Faculty need to have the space to pursue the research that they are passionate about and the also need to have the freedom to express their opinions in the university, and in the society as a whole. — Henry Rosovsky
The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs — Albert Einstein
...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations. — Laura Schlessinger
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
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful. — George Lucas
... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world. — Carolyn Heilbrun
One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home. — Tony Danza
I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that. — Anna Wintour
I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King. — Frederick Lenz
Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague. — William McKeen
Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated. — Thomas Sowell
Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically. — David Barton
I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, forth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind me and he was a brain and nobody wanted to have me be in the same grade as him, so they kept passing me. I never learned how to spell, graduated from eighth grade counting on my fingers to do simple addition, and in general was not a resounding academic success. — Robert Munsch
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global economy. Career technical education (CTE) shares the Initiative s goal that all students must be college and career ready. CTE programs that incorporate the Common Core Standards will ensure students have the academic and technical knowledge and skills to be successful in the 21st century workplace. — Kimberlee Green
Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature’s design. Are you? Goals will help you do that. I must add, don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order. — Chetan Bhagat
I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why. — Joss Whedon
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