Quotes About Achievement

I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

We must dream so big that without the support that comes through favor with God and man, we could never accomplish what is in our hearts.

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

You might think you see a lucky man who made the grade.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Victory passes back and forth between men.

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.