Quotes about Achievement
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
— Amelia Earhart
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
— John Adams
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
— John Calvin
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.
— Earl Nightingale
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.
— Muhammad Ali
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
— Edmund Burke
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
— Publilius Syrus
Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
— William Hazlitt