I’m glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

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

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

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.

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

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

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.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

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.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

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

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

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.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

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.

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

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

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

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

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

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

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

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

I just want to do well with the national team.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

My reputation precedes me now.