Quotes About Achievement

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?