Pinnacle Quotes

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. Rowling

Aspire, Austen, Authors

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.
Eric Cantona

Career, United, Top

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Thomas Wolfe

Success, Money, Become

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
Benjamin Carson

Person, Talent, Order

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

Home, Proud, Guy

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
Eric Alterman

Hope, Food, Baseball

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
Bob Riley

Patriotism, Long, Sacrifice

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
Patrick Stewart

Find, Company, Happened

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'
Mika Brzezinski

Birthday, Career, Learned

For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.
Elle Macpherson

Success, Sports, America

When 'Twilight' hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinnacle, that was the moment. I never thought I would be there. And I keep having moments like that where you just stop and say, wait a minute - how is this still going up? I'm waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me.
Stephenie Meyer

Waiting, Thought, Moment

At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
John Strachan

Place, Moral, She

The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
Alex Ferguson

Career, Three, Knighthood

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
Jack Klugman

Career, Put, Broken

As an astronaut, when you're getting ready to go out of that hatch, you know that's the pinnacle of both your career and your life. The view completely blows you away. The real challenge is getting past the excitement and getting focused and down to work.
Thomas Marshburn

Life, Work, Past

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