Quotes About Achievement

Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

Why'd you have to say that there's always someone who can do it better than I can And don't you think that I know that walkin' on water won't make me a miracle man

There's only one Mark McGwire. The man walked over 160 times. Just think. If he walks 60 times, he might hit 100 homers.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.