Achievement quotes

“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote

“- Gustav Graves: He died chasing a dream. Isn't that the way to go?
- James Bond: I'd rather not go at all.”
Toby Stephens - Gustav Graves
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“- Kit Latura: I hope you make it, Roy.
- Roy Nord: I always make it.”

Sylvester Stallone - Kit Latura
Viggo Mortensen - Roy Nord

“Let me show you the bumblebee, you never would think it could fly. With a body too big, and wings too small, it still finds its way to the sky. A butterfly can flutter by, its wings are small but sound. But the bumblebee, aerodynamically, should never leave the ground. So the scientists say, most every day, its wings can't bear its weight. But...” (continue)(continue reading)
Shirley MacLaine - Mary Kay

“If you'll forget about the girls and cars and listen to me you can accomplish things that you never thought were possible. I don't care if you're short, slow, tall, or small. You can play with the best of them if you'll dedicate yourself to becoming better.”

Nick Benedict - Press Maravich

“You push yourself and push yourself trying to achieve the impossible, because you know what that moment comes, everything you've done has prepared you for victory!”
Vince Vaughn - Gary Grobowski

“We go in. We get what we want. We come out.”
Jean-Hugues Anglade - Eric

“If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.”
Michael J. Fox - Marty McFly

“The Valkyrie are great warriors. In our youth, we must leave home and fight in many battles until we have proven ourselves.”
Sybil Danning - St. Exmin

“The K-12 dude. You make a gnarly run like that and girls will get sterile just looking at you.”
Curtis Armstrong - Charles De Mar

“I want that feeling. The feeling that comes over a man when he gets exactly what he desires. I need that feeling!”
John Cho - Harold Lee

“- Queen Isabella I.: The New World is a disaster.
- Columbus: And the old one an achievement?”
Sigourney Weaver - Queen Isabel of Castille
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus

“All the accomplishments in the world mean nothing without someone to share them with.”
Julian McMahon - Victor Von Doom

“- Jedadiah: I'm gonna shoot you in your dang eye. In your dadgum eye.
- Larry: Yeah. Keep shootin'. Nothing's gonna happen.
- Jedadiah: Now you know my shame. Jedediah's impotent rage. His guns don't fire. Take me away.”
Owen Wilson - Jedediah
Ben Stiller - Larry Daley

“If you get 3000 hits, you don't have to be a team player.”
Rich Komenich - Big Horse Borelli

“Field operatives must often use every means that their disposal to achieve their objectives.”
Desmond Llewelyn - Q

“Faint heart never won fair lady!”
Glenn Close - Cruella de Vil

“Have you ever had that feeling that this is the best I'm ever gonna do, this is the best I'm ever gonna feel... and it isn't that great?”
Billy Crystal - Mitch Robbins

“All great achievements arose from dissatisfaction. It is the desire to do better, to dig deeper that propels a civilization to greatness.”
Brad Renfro - Todd Bowden

“It was everything I always wanted. But when I had got it, it felt like nothing, less than nothing.”

Jessica Alba - Honey Daniels

"Adele Louise Stanton has passed the State Bar Examination". Wow! Does this mean you're qualified to tend bar?

Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton

“They enjoy the goal but not the process. But the reality of it is that the true work of improving things is in the little achievements of the day.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

- Shelly: It's just... funny, don't yah think, that when you can't afford something, it's like "really expensive" but then when you can afford it, it's like, free? It's kinda backwards, don't yah think?
- Cate: Yeah, well... the world is a bit like that, I guess, in a lot of ways.
Cate Blanchett - Shelly
Cate Blanchett - Herself

- Al: Come on, what do I gotta do?
- Patricia: You could crawl through broken glass on your hands and knees with a sign on your back that says "asshole". That might get you in the door.

Joe Mantegna - Al
Chloe Webb - Patricia

“In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!”
Tom Cruise - Frank T.J. Mackey