Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my savior. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

— Elle Macpherson

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

— Charles Stanley

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

— Charles Kettering

Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.

— Ahmed Zewail

I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.

— Nader al-Masri

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

— Zane Grey

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

— Jimmy Carter

In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Integrity is critical to our lives - and to our dreams of achievement. We must remember that without integrity, nothing else matters and that with integrity, nothing else matters.

— Jon Huntsman