Quotes About Achievement

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That's why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].

If you could call me buff, my version of buff was when I finished that film [Swiss Army Man].

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

It's kind of glorious to say, "Oh man, this guy had his career cut short." I'm not calling myself Sandy Koufax by any means. I'm not in that caliber at all, but sometimes it has to end different.

I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.

I am the only man who can say he's been in Take That and at least two members of the Spice Girls.

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.