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Interesting Quotes About Awards & Recognition

Awards refer to any form of acclamation or recognition that you receive for your outstanding performance or your efforts in a particular field or in your profession. Awards are a motivational tool that keeps you going. Besides being a mark of excellence, awards help boost your morale and help you aim and achieve bigger accomplishments. In a way to reward creative excellence, awards come handy. Awards can be monetary as well as non-monetary. Awards help encourage people to give their best, express empowerment and take thoughtful risks. If your don’t have a knack for words and are looking for the right words to praise someone and you are not a poet then we have created a corpus of some popular, famous and inspiring award and recognition quotations and sayings which have come from eminent leaders, celebrities, motivational speakers and famous personalities. Following is a list of award quotes and thoughts that will keep you on the right track and take you straight towards accomplishing your goals.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
August Wilson

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
George W. Bush

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
Barbra Streisand

You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.

You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.
Michael J. Fox

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
Barbra Streisand

Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast.

Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast.
Tom Cruise

My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'
Mark Ruffalo

I want to win some awards, sell more records - just do whatever I want.

I want to win some awards, sell more records - just do whatever I want.
Big Sean

I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.
Bobby Orr

But we came for the Kennedy Center Awards, which was an incredible honor. Being a British person, I was bestowed this honor. And my partner and I, David, came. And we were so pleasantly surprised by George Bush and his knowledge of AIDS. He really - he treated David and I - and Laura - treated us like - they were so friendly and so courteous.
Elton John

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
Amber Heard

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.
Shah Rukh Khan

Awards shows mainly publicize the people giving the awards.

Awards shows mainly publicize the people giving the awards.
Arnold Vinick

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.
Sir Michael Caine

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
Nelson Mandela

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.
Sally Field

You can't deny a band whose fans will literally do anything to see them win the awards. We're very appreciative to the fan base. That mutual feeling of appreciation is something that really helps.

You can't deny a band whose fans will literally do anything to see them win the awards. We're very appreciative to the fan base. That mutual feeling of appreciation is something that really helps.
Andy Biersack

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.
Dustin Hoffman

It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.

It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
Zinedine Zidane

Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other.

Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other.
Mia Hamm

I'm rather fond of my awards.
Ruskin Bond

Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.
Adele

I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.

I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
Natalie Portman

I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.

I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.
Luke Bryan

Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.

Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.
Shirdi Sai Baba

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
Humphrey DeForest Bogart

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.
Kirsten Dunst

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
Sir Michael Caine

My job as the host of a rock awards show is not to be as divisive as possible, but certainly you want to be able to interject your jokes and how you feel about stuff.

My job as the host of a rock awards show is not to be as divisive as possible, but certainly you want to be able to interject your jokes and how you feel about stuff.
Andy Biersack