Quotes About Achievement

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.

Every once in a while someone along the road lets us know how far behind we are. A man shouts: 'Faster!' He probably thinks bicycle racing is about going fast.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.

This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

When you show a man what he wants he will move heaven and earth to get it.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.