Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Applause waits on success.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

I’m glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

No great thing is created suddenly.

My success rate speaks for itself.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

All I ever wanted out of my life was to buy my mother a house. By 1995, I have achieved all I wanted materially in life.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.