Quotes About Achievement

There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.

Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.