Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. — John Foster Dulles
Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues. — Cary Grant
Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years. — Marshall Goldsmith
Longevity conquers scandal every time. — Shelby Foote
Achievement is not the most important thing -- Authenticity is — Unknown
The value of achievement lies in the achieving. — Albert Einstein
Achievement results from work realizing ambition. — Adam Ant
Many people achieve success, but to sustain the same over an entire lifetime requires humility, gratitude, and a constant learning mind-set. — Gautam Baid
A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever. — Mary Lou Retton
You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out. — Tom Peters
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy. — Aeschylus
Excellent people are honoured wherever they go. — Tibetan Proverbs
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque. — Denzel Washington
Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward. — Denzel Washington
All achievement should be measured in human happiness. — Walter Lippmann
...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success. — Leo Tolstoy
A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation. — Ryne Sandberg
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Life Achievement Quotes
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team. — Jim Harbaugh
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. — Alan Watts
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies and develop our minds to the limits of our ability. — Joseph Pilates
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below — Bhagat Singh
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.
No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything. — Ronaldinho
With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you — Genghis Khan
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. — Vaclav Havel
I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death. — Monty Oum
When you achieve one dream, dream another. Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a lifetime occupation. — Rudy Ruettiger
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus
A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. — Bill Gates
I've always believed that I could do whatever I set my mind to do. — Alice Coachman
You have to go whole heartedly in anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another. — Harold S. Kushner
It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements. — Curtis Martin
George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an advisor to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected for a three-person commission investigating rules of war violation in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award. — Tina Fey
I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition. — Michael Jackson
The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself. — Denis Waitley
The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?" — Marianne Williamson
What if you are just one bend in the road away from achieving your God-ordained purpose? If you give up on your faith now, could you live with knowing that your chance of a lifetime was only one act of faith away? — DeVon Franklin
It feels like a rash. It suddenly seems like I've got a contagion of diseases, I mean awards. But it's nice, it's a nice feeling. It's so weird, because I'm only 46. A lifetime Achievement award... it feels like 'I'm not over yet'. I hope they're not trying to say it's time to stop. I'm only just getting the gist of it. — Helena Bonham Carter
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? — Gao Xingjian
It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. — Robert Plant
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act. — Max Weber
Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children. — Jerry Pinkney
I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early! — Shirley Temple
If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission. — Sammy Cahn
The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old. — Francis Ford Coppola
I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die. — James Taylor
Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those that become more frequent as people age. It is a way of selecting and preparing foods based on science that can help people achieve and maintain optimum health over their lifetime. — Andrew Weil
You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long. — Michael J. Fox
People are realizing that being gay is just as defining as the color of our skin and it's not a choice. I'm really encouraged. I think in my lifetime we will achieve equality. I'm honored to be a part of it. — Leslie Jordan
The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award. — Argus Hamilton
I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much. — Steven Spielberg
I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches. — Michael Caine
It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the forever and sadly lost past. Avoid as long as you can the ultimate indignity: a lifetime achievement award. — Terry Rossio
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;Therefore, we must be saved by hope.Nothing which is true, or beautiful, or good, makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;Therefore, we must be saved by faith.Nothing we do, however virtuous, could be accomplished alone;Therefore, we must be saved by love.No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint;Therefore, we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized ac — Max Weber
I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the top of the list somewhere is to give pleasure to others. — Unknown
'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams. — Tommy Hilfiger
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. — Reinhold Niebuhr
To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way. — Gustav Ejstes
On a personal level, I would like my loved ones to know that I have always done the best that I could to demonstrate my love, and worked hard to provide them with a sense of security. On a more global level, I would like to see that my efforts, whether with the Beach Boys or as an individual, achieve as much benefit to humanity as possible during my lifetime. Peace and love! — Mike Love
I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself. — Joseph Heller
I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to be remembered?' I tell them I don't want to be remembered! I'm not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm not that kind of a person. And I'm not brash about it; it's just the way I am. — Bipasha Basu
I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get. — Donald O'Connor
Making each day a mini lifetime - to achieve something and to enjoy something. — Joan Collins
Lou Holtz is a brilliant strategist, a first-class motivator, and an inspiring role model. Winning Every Day coaches you through the hard-won lessons of life that Coach Holtz has gleaned from a lifetime of learning. Using personal behind-the-scenes experiences he shows you how to break through obstacles, capitalize on fleeting opportunities, and achieve success. There is no better mentor than Lou Holtz. — Peter Lowe
Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones. — Ted Turner
The goal that the Obama team has is to fundamentally replace the historic America of self reliance, independence, the work ethic, the people who go out and achieve because they spend their lifetime doing the right things and they want to replace it with a politician dominated redistributionist bureaucracy which in the essence would mean the end of the America as it has been for the last 400 years. — Newt Gingrich
I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look. — Chaka Khan
I could really care less about the TV and the fame, it's all about that lifetime achievement of becoming a world champion. — Jake Ellenberger
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