Quotes About Achievement

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.

The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

The men who succeed are the efficient few.

Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA from Havard, and a PhD from Oxford. He's a brilliant man I tell you, Mean Gene.

Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.