Lifetime Achievement Quotes

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

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

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

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

I could really care less about the TV and the fame, it's all about that lifetime achievement of becoming a world champion.

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

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.

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.

I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

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

I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.

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.

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.

You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.

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.

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.

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

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.

Larry Carlton is an incredibly versatile guitarist who has been a major force for guitar for many years. He is easily recognizable - all you have to do is hear him once and from that point on you'll be a fan, just like me. It gives me great pleasure to extend congratulations to Larry on his 2011 George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations !

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.

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

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

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

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!

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

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

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

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

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

I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.