Quotes About Achievement

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of her, and I go, 'Ah, we accomplished this together.'

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.

When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."

I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men.