It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Success is the child of audacity.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

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

It feels good to have your work respected again.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

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

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

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

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.

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

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

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.

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.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Of course awards matter.

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.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

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

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

What is once well done is done forever.

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.

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

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

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.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

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

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

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

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

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.‘

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

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

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

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.