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

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

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.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

See, winners embrace hard work.

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

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

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.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

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 don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

I worked my face off.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

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.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

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

And winning is a huge thing for me.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

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

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

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.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

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

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘