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Quotes About Achievement

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.
~ Daryl Hall
It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
~ Robert Fulghum
I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in.
~ Julius Erving
Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.
~ Bob Ehrlich
It's a great honor... and it's an honor to be with her majesty, obviously... I'm very honored to be given this honor. (upon receiving the OBE)
~ David Beckham
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
~ John Lennon
I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
~ Dan Fouts
Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.
~ Dominique Wilkins
The best way to honor your dreams is to get them done!
~ Robin Sharma
Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
~ Alexander Pope
I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.
~ Stephen Spender
My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.
~ Ryan White
The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.
~ Philip Sidney
To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.
~ Shaun Alexander
It was an honor to coach him. He should be proud of what he did this year.
~ David Blatt
Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honor for me to break Jim Clarks record (as youngest champion).
~ Emerson Fittipaldi
I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.
~ Shaun White
It's a masterpiece [The Exorcist]. This is an honor. I know you may not think so, but it really is. How many movies in our lifetime? This is an honor.
~ Linda Blair
It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.
~ Rickey Henderson
A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.
~ William Shakespeare
It still feels like an honor to bring something [on Sundance].
~ Elijah Wood
One honor won is a surety for more.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.
~ George Washington