Quotes About Achievement

I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

A man can't just sit around.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

As a young man God blessed me with a special talent to throw a football.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

I haven't been right all year. I guess, you know, when you don't feel good, and you still get hits, that's when you know you are a bad man.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.