Man's Greatest Achievements Quotes

#1. The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

Bryant McGill

#2. Of the things that are man's achievements, the greatest is suffering.

Douglas Clegg

#3. Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

Ann Bancroft

#4. While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.

Mark Kennedy

#5. You are likely the greatest obstacle to achieving your own dreams.

Bryant McGill

#6. The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others

Walt Disney

#7. In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.

Tobias Dantzig

#8. Being near you for a day was at the top of my bucket list of the greatest life achievements, so this has by far exceeded my expectations and everyday has been magic.

Crystal Woods

#9. To have my name said like, "Common and John Legend, Golden Globe nominees," is one of the greatest achievements I've ever had as an artist, as a person.

Common

#10. Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

Mark Foley

#11. For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

Jim Al-Khalili

#12. Never give up on hope. Most of the greatest achievements of humanity were accomplished by tired, discouraged people who never gave up on hope. Anything is possible ... if you truly believe.

Timothy Pina

#13. One of my greatest failures:
I was trying to cut a piece of moment so that I could erase it.
One of my greatest achievements:
I have learnt to ignore my futureless past.

Munia Khan

#14. The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#15. To be able to accept the wonder and the marvel of one's own personality, however flawed or 'accidental,' and place it in and trust it to the hands of the One who made it, is one of the greatest achievements in life.

Ravi Zacharias

#16. My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.

Nick Offerman

#17. Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient.

Fred Hoyle

#18. Concentrate ... for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.

Orison Swett Marden

#19. The unprecedented 3rd Heavyweight Championship Title won by Muhammad Ali, his final victory, will stand as one of the greatest human achievements in all of sporting history".

Paul Leo Faso

#20. Who thinks his great achievements poor
Shall find his vigour long endure.
Of greatest fulness, deemed a void,
Exhaustion ne'er shall stem the tide.
Do thou what's straight still crooked deem;
Thy greatest art still stupid seem,
And eloquence a stammering scream.

Lao-Tzu

#21. One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Nido Qubein

#22. The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. Mankind's greatest achievements are found on thank you notes, not resumes.

Wes Fesler

#24. The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.

Denis Waitley

#25. Certainly, one of the greatest achievements of the human intellectual spirit was the Arabic Translation Movement. Over the course of about 100 years, virtually the entire Greek Scientific and philosophical corpus was either translated or summarized into Arabic (McGinnis, 10).

Jon McGinnis

#26. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this.

Stephen Hawking

#27. The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.

Stephen Covey

#28. Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

Susan Cain

#29. I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you.

Brian Tracy

#30. The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

H.P. Lovecraft

#31. If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza's Amor Dei Intellectualis, they would hardly have been capable of that untiring devotion which alone enables man to attain his greatest achievements.

Albert Einstein

#32. A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

Lev Vygotsky

#33. When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

Pearl Bailey

#34. Amongst some of the Old Soul's greatest achievements in life include the ability to live with inner peace, even amid the troubles of life. As all is passing, the Old Soul understands the importance of non-attachment to physical and immaterial things.

Aletheia Luna

#35. Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.

Alison Gopnik

#36. All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.

Charles Sanders Peirce