Quotes About Achievement

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. Always do more than is required of you. If a man has done his best, what else is there?

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.

In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.

If I never do another show, I'll die a happy man.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

The world does not pay men for that which they "know". It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

No man fails who does his best.

I know it's been 15 years since the Bills made the playoffs. Well get ready, man, we're going. We are going.

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

I live, like every real man, in my work.

Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

I am still the fastest man on earth.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.