Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

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.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

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.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

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.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

The honor of a nation is its life.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

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

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

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

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

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.

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.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

I’ve had the honor of speaking at many commencements.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

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

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Integrity has no need of rules.