Quotes about Achievement
No really great man ever thought himself so.
— William Hazlitt
Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.
— Yulia Tymoshenko
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
— Norman Vincent Peale
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.
— Mary Baker Eddy
I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
— Dustin Hoffman
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