As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.

Private dreams are the most powerful. You have to dream of success to make it happen, and if you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. But that doesn't mean you have to go around telling everyone about it.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Success is dependent on effort.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.

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.

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of.

Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Much effort, much prosperity.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.

You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation necessary for future success in the working world.

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.