Quotes About Achievement

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

It is the success which makes great men.

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

To Sachin, the man we all want to be.

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don't ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

Two grand slams in a week - man, that's seven or eight ribbies right there.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

Wonka: But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted. Charlie: What happened? Wonka: He lived happily ever after.