Achievement quotes

“I'm tired of living without really living. I'm tired of wanting things. We can't have a lot of things. But we could have this.”
Cole Sprouse - Will

“- Karl Zielinski: Mary, a person with an engineer's mind should be an engineer. You can't be a computer the rest of your life.
- Mary Jackson: Mr. Zielinski, I'm a negro woman. I'm not gonna entertain the impossible.
- Karl Zielinski: And I'm a Polish Jew whose parents died in a Nazi prison camp. Now I'm standing beneath a spaceship that's going...” (continue)(continue reading)
Olek Krupa - Karl Zielinski
Janelle Monáe - Mary Jackson

“You will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun, Kal. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders.”
Russell Crowe - Jor-El

“In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail. ”
Kirk Douglas

“There are several quintessential moments in a man's life: losing his virginity, getting married, becoming a father, and having the right girl smile at you.”
Emilio Estevez - Kirby Keger

“If you don't try, you don't get.”
Harry Fielder

“If you have dreams go out and get it, or at least try.”
Harry Fielder

“Don't dream it, be it.”
Tim Curry

“Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.”
Elijah Wood

“Nothing happens until I make it happen.”
Scott Wilson

“Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.”
Helen Hayes

“All my life I've wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific.”
Lily Tomlin

“Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail or worse yet, afraid we may succeed. You need to know that while I knew so very early that you would realize your dreams, I never imagined I would once again realize my own.”
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter

“My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success'.”
Helen Hayes

“- Elizabeth Marston: What we want can never happen.
- William Moulton Marston: Why not?
- Elizabeth Marston: Because the world won't let it.
- William Moulton Marston: The world can't stop us.”
Rebecca Hall - Elizabeth Marston
Luke Evans - William Moulton Marston

“The important thing is the effort, not what we achieve.”
Gunnar Björnstrand - Mr. Vogler

“Err, if you want to achieve in this life, you must set your goals higher.”
Dave Willis - Ignignokt

“- Jack: There's gonna be some things that you are going to be able to get, that other people in the office don't get... one of them: Gym membership.
- Alison Scott: You want me to lose weight?”
Alan Tudyk - Jack
Katherine Heigl - Alison Scott

“We are going to get one of the three R's: the roof, the river, or the revolver.”
John Malkovich - Teddy Deserve

“- President Dedmon: Jack, I may not know football, but I have dealt with the NCAA. They like their rules, and the biggest one is freshmen are not allowed to play intercollegiate athletics.
- Jack Lengyel: That's why you're gonna get them to make an exception.
- President Dedmon: How am I supposed to...
- Jack Lengyel: Explain it to them. We...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Strathairn - President Dedmon
Matthew McConaughey - Jack Lengyel

“Honestly I don't know if I have my own dream, but I do know that I can help others fulfill theirs.”
Drew Fuller - Jason Stevens

“- Mr. Peterson: So, what was the scholarship for?
- Matthew Kidman: Moral fiber.”

Richard Fancy - Mr. Peterson
Emile Hirsch - Matthew Kidman

“- Sabrina Peterson: How'd you get involved in this, Sam? Willy wanted to get rid of Beekman and he thought you could get the job done?
- Sam Smotherman: Something like that.
- Sabrina Peterson: But you botched the fire in college. What made him think you'd get it right this time?
- Sam Smotherman: I was the only bad guy he knew...”
Julia Roberts - Sabrina Peterson
Saul Rubinek - Sam Smotherman

“I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately.”
Leonardo DiCaprio