Quotes About Achievement

One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

I'm on top of the world, man. And I intend to stay there.

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

At the risk bragging, one of the things I'm best at is riding coattails. Behind every successful man is me, smiling and taking partial credit.

The only failure one man should fear, is the failure to do his best.

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

A man should be what he can do.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.