Quotes About Achievement

What man has done, man can aspire to do.

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.