Quotes About Achievement

When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.

Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!

No man can go to Heaven, but everyman can build one!

Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants!

Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!

If man can fly, it won't be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!

Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being!

Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!

Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!"

What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.

If you beat the Man, who was the Man, then you're the Man.

Dead men never pick up their trophies.

The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.

Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.

Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me

I want to be the first black man on the moon