Quotes About Achievement

He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

I am a 21st century man. I don't believe in magic. I believe in sweat, tears, life and death.

I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it.

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

As for a limit to one's labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.