Quotes About Achievement

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

I got married to an amazing woman, had 2 awesome kids and toured with Jeff Beck, I can die a happy man now.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.

If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?

Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for!