Quotes About Accolades

Awards are lovely and always welcome.

If you've built your identity only on your professional accolades and awards, what is going to be left of your legacy when those trophies tarnish and those records get broken? The Great Ones understand the importance of being well-rounded.

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.

I'm happy to be getting accolades for my role in 'Endrendrum Punnagai;' I'm getting powerful roles and would star glamourously if the script demanded so.

Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.

Just being the best quarterback, best teammate, best leader that I can be. I just worked on doing that every day and getting better, and hopefully that leads to some accolades and success down the road.

Only a sister could be thoroughly unimpressed with your public accomplishments and accolades but would screech in joy and support when you finally learned how to parallel park or make it through a cavity filling without fainting.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

I want to win Nobel Peace Prizes, as many Grammys as I can, Emmys, Golden Globes, VMAs, everything.

You always want to fantasize about the future, and all the work you're going to put in, all the accolades, but you always forget the roadblocks that are right in front of you until they hit you and you have to go over them.

I'm a four-time champion. The second female to ever compete in the Royal Rumble, amongst many, many other accolades.

Most of my awards come from foreign festivals!

'Beasts of the Southern Wild' was one of those films that I felt like I could dismiss because it received so many accolades, but then I watched it and was won over.

One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.

Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.

We think accolades are nice, awards are great, but we make music for the people.

In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think too much of all the accolades.

Sure, it's nice to get appreciation from the outside. But generally, I don't think personal accolades are appropriate in football.

We witness so many people lose themselves in this industry, and sacrifice who they really are for success and accolades.

For my second and third pictures, I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I've seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely.

I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all.