Lifetime Achievement Quotes

• 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

  Husband, War, Rights

  "Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's best jokes from the 2015 Golden Globes". www.independent.co.uk. January 12, 2015.

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• The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Wise, Contribution To Society

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Feb 20, 2013

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• It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

  Curtis Martin

  Life, Achievement, African American

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• The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Determination, Work

  "Mindfulness" edited by Ellen J. Langer, (p. 133), 1989.

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• The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Ambition

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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• Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied by the people around you and the culture in which you were raised. Look again. And again. Keep looking until you realize, within your own experience, that you’re so much more than who you believe you are. Keep looking until you discover the wondrous heart, the marvelous mind, that is the very basis of your being.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

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• Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Death

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• I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

  Shirley Temple

  Awards, Achievement, Advice

  "Curls and dimples: Shirley Temple, child star who made 'em smile during Depression, dies at 85", www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2014.

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• 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

  Awards, Achievement, Lifetime

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  We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Hard Work, Memorable

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.413, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Awards, Long, Achievement

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Life, Children, Ambition

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 27, 2013

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• 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

  Past, Awards, Long

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• Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it!

  Tasha Tudor

  Life, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• I've always believed that I could do whatever I set my mind to do.

  Alice Coachman

  Inspirational, Success, Believe

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• Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Life, Years

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• To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, God, Falling In Love

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• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

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  Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 05, 2013

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  Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Positive, Positivity, Expectations

  Jack Nicklaus (1998). “Jack Nicklaus: My Story”, Simon & Schuster

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• If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 19, 2013

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