Achievement quotes

“This Bible is the first book ever printed. It represents the dawn of the Age of Reason. As far as I'm concerned, the written word is mankind's greatest achievement.”

Tom Rooney - Jeremy

“There are two types of tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want, the other is getting it.”
Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

“I've found that if you wait long enough, everything comes to you.”
Bill Murray - Garfield

“- Major Cain: No. You're not mutation. You're evolution. With my help, just imagine what you can achieve.
- Alice: What about him?
- Major Cain: Evolution has its dead ends.”

Thomas Kretschmann - Major Cain
Milla Jovovich - Alice

“My father was a world-famous art historian, and my brother was ahead of me in everything. I was always the disappointment.”
Eddie Redmayne - Colin Clark

“We're still pioneers, we barely begun. Our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, cause our destiny lies above us.”
Matthew McConaughey - Cooper

“Please, I don't want to die. I haven't accomplished anything yet.”

James Franco - Oz

“We all dream a lot. Some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel. But all that I say can be told another way, in the story of a boy whose dream came true. And it could be you.”
Maria Friedman - Narrator

“We are not so different, Mr. Badrinath, you and I. I've had all kinds of things shoved up my ass, but I got over it, you will too.”
Cloris Leachman - Great Gam Gam

“- Abby Taylor: Do you have anything to say on the matter of your assault on Mr. Genest?
- Jesse Stone: The restraining order wasn't working. Think of me as implementing it.”
Polly Shannon - Abby Taylor
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“- Burke Bennett: This is the high life, Sheldon. You gotta get used to this. Pretty soon you're gonna be pissin' on hundred dollar bills just to see the look on Franklin's face!
- Sheldon Mopes: I don't think I could ever do that. I have too much respect for what that man accomplished.”
Danny DeVito - Burke Bennett
Edward Norton - Sheldon Mopes

“Screw the pressure, screw the scholarship. I mean do your own thing, on your own terms, and get what you came here for. That's what counts.”
Oliver James - Jay Corgan

“It's a shame to go forever without takin' a taste of somethin'.”
Robert Duvall - Boss Spearman

“It's never too late to become what you might have been.”
Kristen Thomson - Kristy

In order to continue to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It's not the "it" that you want, it's the fantasy of "it".
Kevin Spacey - David Gale

“I can't accomplish a goddamn thing of any worth until we cure ourselves of slavery and end this pestilential war!”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“Fantasies have to be unrealistic because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don't, you can't want it anymore.”
Kevin Spacey - David Gale

“They don't ever have to work for anything. They think they can just, all of a sudden, one day out of the blue, waltz right in with no qualifications whatsoever and try to take away what other people have worked for very hard for their entire lives!”

Reese Witherspoon - Tracy Flick

“- Lieutenant Charles Pizer: Far be it from you to admit there isn't anything you can't handle.
- V.I.N.CENT.: There are three basic types, Mr. Pizer: the Wills, the Won'ts, and the Can'ts. The Wills accomplish everything, the Won'ts oppose everything, and the Can'ts won't try anything.”
Joseph Bottoms - Lieutenant Charles Pizer
Roddy McDowall - V.I.N.CENT.

“If it can be dreamed, it can be done.”
Robin Williams - Teddy Roosvelt

- Britney: I was up all night working on new cheers.
- Winnie: You've managed to maintain a "C" average and work on new cheers? Ugh you're such an overachiever.
Hayden Panettiere - Britney
Emme Rylan - Winnie

“The horn brought us together... and together, we have a chance to take back what is ours!”
Ben Barnes - Prince Caspian

“Before you achieve you must believe.”
James Franco - Jake Huard

“I've made a big investment in you, Peter. Time and money, and it's not working. Now, I could just shake my head and smile. But in my house, when a turd appears, we throw it out. We dispose of it. We flush it away. We don't put it on the table and call it caviar.”
Robert Stephens - Sir Gerald Moore

“- Uncle Dave Palmer: Not everything in life is for sale.
- Xander Drax: Of course it is, Dave! And I'll tell you something else: I usually get what I want.”
Bill Smitrovich - Uncle Dave Palmer
Treat Williams - Xander Drax