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

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.

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

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

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.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

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.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

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.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

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

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

I have goals.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

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.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

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

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

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

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

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

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.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

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

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

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.

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

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

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

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

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

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

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

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

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

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.

What is once well done is done forever.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

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.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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.

I always make my dreams into goals.