Academic Success Quotes

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.

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I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success. Forcing him into these brutal encounters will a) make a dame sure he is a success, and b) all you to see evidence of that success with the added bonus of a cheering crowd. This means that sports are supported with an almost desperate enthusiasm. The football team gets catered dinners before a fame. Honor Society is lucky if it gets a cupcake. Academic success-forget it. That requires too much imagination. There's no scoreboard.

For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity was mostly negative, and my sense of identity was also mostly negative, although I tried hard to prove to myself and to the world that I was good enough by working very hard academically. But even after I had achieved academic success, I was happy for two weeks or three and then the depression and anxiety came back.

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.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

No one can take it away from you.

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

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

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