To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

I don’t understand what it’s all about or what’s worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

Big results require big ambitions.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

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

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

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of 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 realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

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

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

I know I’m more on television, and I’m more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

Success is the child of audacity.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Well done is better than well said.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Value is what you get.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

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.

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.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

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

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

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.