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.

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.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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 thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

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.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

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

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.

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.

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.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

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

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

SNL is a home. You’ve got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it’s a great time.

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.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

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.

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.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.

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.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

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

I always make my dreams into goals.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

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

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.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

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.

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

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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.

‚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.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

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.

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.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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.

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.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

What one has to do usually can be done.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

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.