Achievement quotes

“- 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

“Look son, if you want something real bad, I mean you really want it, you've got to go out where you can find it and grab it.”
John Terry - Jack Stoneman

“Why you pursue something is equally as important as what you pursue.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Lou Bloom

“To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.”
Kelly Rowland

“All it takes is heat and pressure to turn a rock into a diamond.”
Shirley MacLaine - Mary Kay

“I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.”
Victoria Principal

“Let me know when your whole life goes up in smoke. Means it's time for a promotion.”
Stanley Tucci - Nigel

“- Fred Weasley: You know, George, I've always felt out futures lay outside the world of academic achievement.
- George Weasley: Fred, I've been thinking exactly the same thing.”
James Phelps - Fred Weasley
Oliver Phelps - George Weasley

“- Heinrich Harrer: That's the Olympic gold medal. Not important.
- Pema Lhaki: This is another great difference between our civilization and yours. You admire the man who pushes his way to the top in any walk of life, while we admire the man who abandons his ego.”
Brad Pitt - Heinrich Harrer
Lhakpa Tsamchoe - Pema Lhaki

“Now he's at The New Republic Magazine, see what happens when greatness is demanded from you?”

Caroline Goodall - Mrs. Duke

“Ask yourself: What do you want in life that money will get you?”
Jessica Alba - Sam

“There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.”
Loretta Young

“When I achieved my dreams, it was like going home to a place I'd never been before.”
James Garner - Red Stevens

“There has never been anything greater than what I have become.”
Jet Li - Gabriel Yulaw

“I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares do more is none.”
Michael Fassbender - Macbeth

“If you really need to, you have to make it happen.”
Marlo Thomas

“- The Blue Fairy: I've given you life.
- Pinocchio: Why?
- The Blue Fairy: Because tonight, Geppetto wished for a real boy.”
Evelyn Venable - The Blue Fairy
Dickie Jones - Pinocchio

“- Patch Adams: Hi. Patch Adams.
- Mitch: Mitch Roman. Georgetown University. I was awarded the William F. Thompson Scientific Achievement Award.
- Patch Adams: Mmm. Emerson Elementary. I once drew a picture of a rabbit that got me two gold stars.”
Robin Williams - Patch Adams
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Mitch

“If you lead the league in batting for three years, you can be the biggest jerk in the world!”
Rich Komenich - Big Horse Borelli

“We've always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments. These moments when we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our proudest achievements.”
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“- Jake Fischer: It doesn't matter what I do. It's just not good enough.
- Emily Thomas: Maybe he's just trying to push you to be better. We teachers do that to the ones we believe in.”

Ashton Kutcher - Jake Fischer
Melissa Sagemiller - Emily Thomas

“I always knew I deserved better than a fish merchant's life.”
Tracey Ullman - Nell Van Dort

“It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.”
Holland Taylor

“Most of us, we bang around the game for a while, then we are forgotten. Ruth, Cobb, Gehrig, DiMaggio, those guys were bigger than the game, and I know that is not what you want. But right now, whether you like it or not, you're bigger than the game. And this is your chance to go out there and show them what you're made of, and that you owe to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bruce McGill - Ralph Houk