I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

The way to know life is to love many things.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

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

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

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

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

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.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

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.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

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

To be free is to have achieved your life.

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

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

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

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

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

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

What one has to do usually can be done.

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

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.