Quotes About Achievement

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She's a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.

Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.

What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?

If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.