Quotes About Accolades

#1. You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.

Geddy Lee

#2. Your opponent will often be blind to your design, being consumed with his own. Do not subconsciously seek accolades of your ingenuity and thus call attention - be sated by your own approval. Be confident you will win.

Shannon Kirk

#3. If any accolades come in the writing of this story, all praise will be His, all Glory will rightly go to Him. If He will allow me to share some part in this, I am truly humbled.

Lynn Dove

#4. I'm not one who's big on accolades and all those things. I did my job and I'm proud of what I did and how I did it.

Troy Brown

#5. Of course, while Katherine took the accolades in stride, she never took the work for granted. Not a morning dawned that she didn't wake up eager to get to the office. The passion that she had for her job was a gift, one that few people ever experienced.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#6. It's not about grand gestures.It's not about accolades.It's not about the world.It's about you.

K.J. Kilton

#7. I knew there had to be more to honor than just one's station in life. That's what Sorcha had taught me: that actions meant more than accolades. That honor was something worth fighting for- and dying for- no matter what house you were born into.

Lesley Livingston

#8. I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.

Kenny G

#9. Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.

Jimmy Johnson

#10. I did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn real fast that the music industry, in the beginning, you're not going to get paid for a while, and then you start getting the accolades.

Ester Dean

#11. I was thrilled when this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature went to Neal Schusterman's 'Challenger Deep.' This brilliant book takes you into the mind of a mentally ill teenager and deserves all the accolades it's received.

John Corey Whaley

#12. October 1976 was the penultimate performance of Bench's Hall of Fame career. All the early success and awards and accolades thrown in his direction had prepared him for this moment - when the Big Red Machine became a dynasty by defending it's World Championship from the season before.

Tucker Elliot

#13. Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.

Susan Straight

#14. Everyone who experiences a spontaneous peak experience tries to recapture the bliss, but most are disappointed. They search for fulfillment in the next job, a new relationship, more money, a coveted car, accolades, and accomplishments.

Deepak Chopra

#15. This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

R.A. Salvatore

#16. Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

Jonathan Sacks

#17. It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.

Bruce Davison

#18. What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolades are really not the experience of the journey. It's all about the process of building something.

Josh Lucas

#19. When someone focuses on the expectation of accolades rather than the enjoyment of the work process, that person is setting up himself for disappointment.

Steve Hickner

#20. For all its accolades and celebrated recognition as sound guidance, I have personally noticed that sometimes, 'follow your heart,' is really bad advice.

Steve Maraboli

#21. In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think too much of all the accolades.

Willie McCovey

#22. Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#23. I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your bank account, whatever is going on in your life on the professional side.

Aaron Rose

#24. I think a lot of young teenagers try to get esteem from accolades from other people, or boys, and what you learn as you get older is that you have to create that within yourself.

Fergie

#25. The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

Nicole Krauss

#26. Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate best-selling author - but I live and die for the work. That's thrilling to me. It's thrilling that I do for others what certain writers did for me when I was a kid.

James Ellroy

#27. I don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very high. You're making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don't even know what you're doing.

Shia Labeouf

#28. If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

Ethan Hawke

#29. And this all fits very well with the modern way of thinking about stuff in which all you need to do, in order to attain a sense of personal accomplishment and earn the accolades of your peers, is to demonstrate an ability to slot new examples of things into the proper intellectual pigeon-holes.

Neal Stephenson

#30. Nelson's Mandela own sense of himself was a very humble reading, [different] from how the world read him. And, quite often, you had the sense that he was not comfortable with all the accolades that would be.

Kumi Naidoo

#31. Leave your legacy--not in possessions or accolades--but in moments. Moments that matter.

Alicia M. Smith

#32. On the field accolades are great, but in order to reach your full potential, you have to overstep the boundaries of football and go out into the community and be an All-Pro there too.

Derrick Thomas

#33. I met Roger Ebert at an independent-film awards or something. And he said, 'When I saw you just now, I wanted to punch you in the face. And then I had to remember you're an actor. So, congratulations!' Those are my accolades.

Leo Fitzpatrick

#34. I've always sort of felt that, for me, everything's so much more about the music than the accolades.

Chad Channing

#35. Life isn't about the final destination or the accomplishments and accolades; it's about the journey and the opportunities for learning - and how we grow as a result.

Michael Eisen

#36. It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Gregory Benford

#37. I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

Mark Kozelek

#38. Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

Bob Dylan

#39. Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.

LZ Granderson

#40. Quantity brings recognition and accolades

Sunday Adelaja

#41. I just want to continue to play great football - that's all that matters. I don't really care about the accolades or any of that.

Justin Tuck

#42. I never considered disobeying an order or even a request from Daddy. I loved and admired him, and one of my preeminent goals in life was to earn his approbation. I learned to expect his criticisms, always constructive, but his accolades were rare. My

Jimmy Carter

#43. Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades ... I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.

Cyndi Lauper

#44. I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don't need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy.

Nick Cannon

#45. It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil?

Mas Oyama

#46. Ian Ashby is very underrated and it's right he gets the accolades he gets

Paul Merson

#47. If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Michael Jordan

#48. Your attitude determines your altitude and your altitude your accolades, access and success.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#49. I'm happy with who I am inside. I'd hate to have accolades and all that and not really be happy with who I was. So I'm really thankful for my family and for the support system that I have for being the person that I am today. I'm proud of who I am.

Keke Palmer

#50. There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.

Frank Sinatra

#51. I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

J. Cole

#52. Success" means nothing more than playing a certain game well enough to receive whatever high accolades exist within that game.

Johnny B. Truant

#53. Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

Randy Houser

#54. Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be.

Charlie Daniels

#55. I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.

Paul McCartney

#56. What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

Tony Dungy

#57. I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.

George Brett

#58. Governor Romney has a record of tremendous accomplishments. But he never asks for accolades. He just asks, 'How can I help?' That's the mark of a true leader: A humble focus on getting the job done.

Reince Priebus

#59. The thing is, if you're going to take the artistic path, you sort of have to make peace with the idea or the possibility that you may never make any money or get any acknowledgment or accolades for what you're doing.

Lela Loren

#60. The 2002 (Olympic) team was a great team, we won the gold medal, they deserved all the accolades that they got. But this team seems to have a little more depth and maybe a little more talent to pick from. So it makes the job of picking the right 23 guys even more difficult.

Wayne Gretzky

#61. While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks.

Andrew Thomas

#62. It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.

Idina Menzel

#63. I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

Kevin Garnett

#64. The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.

John Frankenheimer

#65. Worst of all were the accolades and thanks from people "for what you guys did over there." Thanks for what, I wanted to ask - shooting kids, cowering in terror behind a berm, dropping artillery on people's homes?

Nathaniel Fick

#66. To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.

Jakob Dylan

#67. We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#68. I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I've seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely.

Alan Arkin

#69. My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.

Malgorzata Szumowska

#70. I was national amateur champion. I was 24 years old. My father was there, and I couldn't wait to see him, and my mother. I went up and was waiting for all the accolades, and my mom was teary and happy and my dad looked at me and said, "Well, boy, you did good," and that was it.

Arnold Palmer

#71. Answering your calling inspires self-respect. It is not the accolades of others, but the choice to acknowledge yourself, choose yourself and answer your God-given calling that is the reward.

Shannon Tanner

#72. I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.

Joel Robuchon