Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

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.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

All great achievements require time.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

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

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

I have goals.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

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

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

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

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

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

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.