Achievement Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

— Charles de Gaulle

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

— John Milton

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

— Ernest Renan

For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success.…

— Adolf Hitler

“I assume that in great men whose names I dare not mention, the anarchic element was very powerful. You see, when fundamental changes are…

— Ernst Jünger

“So far as one understands a man, one is that man. The man of genius takes his place in the above argument as he…

— Otto Weininger

“There was a young man favorably endowed as an Alcibiades. He lost his way in the world. In his need he looked about for…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an empire,…

— Nicolas Caussin

Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain;…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp…

— John Desmond Bernal

“You could, if so inclined, read more Greek texts in the original Greek than the most prestigious Greek nobleman of classical times.”

— Kevin Kelly

Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall be entitled…

— Rene Descartes