To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

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

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

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

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

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

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

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

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.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

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.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

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

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

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.

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.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

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

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin‘ icon, you’re not on the show, you know?

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.

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

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

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

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.