Quotes about Achievement
A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.
- GK Chesterton
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
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
All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.
- Barack Obama
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!
- Gloria Steinem
The average person would have quit at the first failure. That's why there have been many average men and only one Edison.
- Napoleon Hill
Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.
- Og Mandino
America is the only place where man is full-grown!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
- Henry David Thoreau
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made
- Henry David Thoreau