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Quotes About Achievement

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.
~ Julia Quinn, Splendid
A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.
~ Chris Rock
It's never just a game when you're winning.
~ George Carlin
Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
You know what GED stands for? Good Enough Diploma.
~ Chris Rock
They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.
~ Chris Rock
I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.
~ Frankie Boyle
The way I figure it, if you can't tell I'm high by looking at me, I win.
~ Marc Maron
Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.
~ Bill Watterson
As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.
~ George W. Bush
My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first one in your class, that means the school is bad." That was his humor.
~ Chantal Akerman
Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not a good actor.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
This book is dedicated to all of my friends who helped me get to where I am today - you know who you are... and when I find you I am going to kill you.
~ Lewis Black
No one ever says, 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.
~ George Carlin
In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.
~ Marc Maron
Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.
~ Jerry Coleman
So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.
~ George W. Bush
Lazy people, the truly lazy people live on information, strategies, ideas, plans and many other criticals, simply to spend one hour of hard work and make the rest feel like a breeze.
~ Alan Rios
Francis Ford Coppola - A man climbs a mountain and they call him a hero. I climb mountains that aren't even there.
~ Madeline Moore
Working on it.
~ Paul Aertker
Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.
~ Oliver Markus
I'm going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet.
~ Nora Roberts
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
~ P.G. Wodehouse