To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

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.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

My reputation precedes me now.

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

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

My success rate speaks for itself.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

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.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

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

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.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

I am results-oriented.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

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

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

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

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.

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

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

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.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin‘ icon, you’re not on the show, you know?

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

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.

The attempt and not the deed confounds 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.

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

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

What is once well done is done forever.

To be announced as a race driver for McLaren is a dream come true.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

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

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

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

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don’t know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump ‚UNICEF.‘

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

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.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.