Quotes About Achievement

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

Gratitude will make a man do incredible things.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

New York is one of man's greatest achievements.

A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

I have been recognized from Mad Men, and it's so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

If (Mike) Hargrove was his own man, I would have been picked (for the 1998 All-Star team). He is another person who doesn't appreciate what I did for him.