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

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

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

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

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.

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

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Of course awards matter.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

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

Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

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

Talent without working hard is nothing.

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.

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.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

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.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

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.

What we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.

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.

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.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

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.

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

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

I have goals.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

The honor of a nation is its life.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

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

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

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

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Well done is better than well said.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

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