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

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

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Winning ‚Motor Trend‘ Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

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

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

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

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

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don’t know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump ‚UNICEF.‘

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.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

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

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.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

All great achievements require time.

I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even faze them. Or I’d sit up at Denny’s or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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

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

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

I just want to do well with the national team.

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 good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That’s how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

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.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

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

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

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.

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

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

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

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

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

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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