Award Quotes

Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.

~ Suzy Kassem

​It's Hard, Not to Fail, but, there is Always a Chance of Success. Of course, there is No Chance of Success, if You didn't Try.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.

~ Criss Jami

People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

~ Criss Jami

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

~ Anthony Liccione

And these women were not concerned in the least that Kellan had roommates. In fact, I don't think they were even concerned that he had neighbors. Maybe they were operating under the false assumption that Kellan gave out awards for who could be the loudest... who was the more enthusiastic... who could say Oh, God ! the most. Then again, maybe the jerk actually did give out prizes.

~ S.c. Stephens

You have to choose whether to go to a restless sleep or to stay awake and fight for a blissful night rest.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Enroll your body, soul and spirit and engage your time to do what you know best. Dedicate yourself to the work at hand and you will be rewarded by the fruits you will bear!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

An 'Employee of the Month' is a titled given to someone who best helped someone else actualize their dream—in that particular month.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The best thing that ever happened to you might be your new job, spouse, awards, etc, but I tell you that being granted to live in order to enjoy these things are wonderful privileges most people can't get.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

There will always be road construction in life, and never a point when all the highways are fixed. Keep walking.

~ R.s. Vern

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

~ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.

~ Nicolas Cage

I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math.

~ Peter Cullen

I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.

~ James Mcavoy

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.

~ Linda Fiorentino

Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.

~ Kate Winslet

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

~ Jake Bugg

I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.

~ John Hawkes

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

~ Denzel Washington

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

~ Jack Benny

Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.

~ Paul Feig

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

~ Lester B. Pearson

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

~ Seamus Heaney