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Quotes About Achievement

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man
~ Juanita M. Kreps
What one man can think, another man can do.
~ Jules Verne
Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.
~ Julie Adams
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
~ Chinua Achebe
You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.
~ Curtis Hanson
I never had ambition to become president of the state or to accomplish more than men.
~ Dalia Grybauskaite
The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.
~ E. W. Howe
A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.
~ E. W. Howe
WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT: Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways
~ Edward Abbey
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
~ Elbert Hubbard
But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.
~ Elvis Costello
I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.
~ Felix Dennis
No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.
~ Frank Arthur Swinnerton
Man is something that is to be surpassed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
A scientist should be the happiest of men.
~ George Wald
The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.
~ Grenville Kleiser
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
~ H. G. Wells
Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: Lou, youre a leading man because youre a good actor. Brought tears to my eyes.
~ Lou Diamond Phillips
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.
~ Lucan
A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance
~ Michelle Wie