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.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Begin with the end in mind.

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.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

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

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

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

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

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.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

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.

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.

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.

Well begun is half done.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

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

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.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

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

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

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

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

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.

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

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

Well done is better than well said.

Without failure there is no achievement.

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

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

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.

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

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

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.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

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.

I am results-oriented.

What is once well done is done forever.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

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

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

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.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

‚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.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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

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