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Quotes About Achievement

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
~ James Ramsey Ullman
Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I'm just doing better than what everybody projected.
~ Big Sean
A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.
~ Ayn Rand
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
~ Thomas Carlyle
That man is idle who can do something better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
~ John Steinbeck
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
~ James A. Garfield
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.
~ James Brown
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.
~ Buzz Aldrin
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
~ Plato
A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
~ William James
He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.
~ Maya Angelou
If the mind of man can believe, the mind of man can achieve.
~ Napoleon Hill
There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
~ Plato
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
~ Sidney Poitier
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
~ Thomas Carlyle
No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.
~ Ty Cobb
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
~ Walter Bagehot
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
~ Idries Shah
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.
~ Annie Smith Peck
A man must constantly exceed his level
~ Bruce Lee
It's better to go out like a man, trying, than to play it safe and get second.
~ Sean Malto
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
~ Seneca the Younger