Accolades Quotes

“When we start being too impressed by the results of our work, we slowly come to the erroneous conviction that life is one large scoreboard where someone is listing the points to measure our worth. And before we are fully aware of it, we have sold our soul to the many grade-givers. That means we are not only in the world, but also of the world. Then we become what the world makes us. We are intelligent because someone gives us a high grade. We are helpful because someone says thanks. We are likable because someone likes us. And we are important because someone considers us indispensable. In short, we are worthwhile because we have successes. And the more we allow our accomplishments — the results of our actions — to become the criteria of our self-esteem, the more we are going to walk on our mental and spiritual toes, never sure if we will be able to live up to the expectations which we created by our last successes. In many people’s lives, there is a nearly diabolic chain in which their anxieties grow according to their successes. This dark power has driven many of the greatest artists into self-destruction.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

“I thought, for certain, that Billy would be the one to give the acceptance speech. But Daisy went up to the mike instead. I thought, I hope she says something coherent. And then she did.
“BILLY: She said, ‘Thank you to everybody who listened to this song and understood this song and sang it along with us. We made it for you. For all of you out there hung up on somebody or something.’
"CAMILA: ‘For everyone hung up on somebody or something.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Quantity brings recognition and accolades”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Ninety percent of those who are successful today were the people who had little or nothing, but were pushed and encouraged by their family.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“It's not about grand gestures.It's not about accolades.It's not about the world.It's about you.”
― Kaleb Kilton

“Some of the greatest accolades that I’ve ever experienced have been those from people that I never knew who somehow figured out what I was doing behind the scenes.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The gift in writing is not the accolades of having written. It's the peace of knowing that a life was changed because of what you wrote.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He who does good needs no accolades.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“He who doth good needs no accolades.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The things that hadn't happened, the honors not bestowed, had never bothered me earlier in my career, when time felt like a field without a visible horizon--but now that dark line had appeared in the distance and the story I had always told myself about my own limitless prospects was breaking down; not yet was starting to feel more like not ever.”
― Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

“Relevancy gives us the feeling that we belong, are heard, are seen, and are acknowledged. It confirms our achievements and reinforces our accolades. It gives us drive and motivates our purpose.”
― Sarah Voldeng, The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto