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Quotes About Achievement

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
~ Alfred de Vigny
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
When success turns a man's head he faces failure
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.
~ Allegra Goodman
I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.
~ Andy Roddick
We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.
~ Andy Rooney
The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.
~ Ann Coulter
At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.
~ Anna Garlin Spencer
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
~ Anthony Trollope
Maybe now people will give a man credit where credit is deserved. Roy Jones was beaten by a better fighter period. I'm one of the best in the world.
~ Antonio Tarver
I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.
~ Anupam Kher
Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.
~ Arthur Alfred Lynch
I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money
~ Ayn Rand
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.
~ Ayn Rand
To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.
~ Ayn Rand
I want to do something that people can really say, 'Hey, man, that was good, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of that.' 'Pride' and 'Transformers' and things like that.
~ Bernie Mac
Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?
~ Bill Lear
The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
~ Bill Walton
I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.
~ Blake Griffin
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
~ Bob Edwards
An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.
~ Bruce Springsteen
There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
~ Bryant H. McGill
The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.
~ Burt Rutan