To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

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

I just want to do well with the national team.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

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.

I am results-oriented.

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

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

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

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

I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.

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.

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

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?‘

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

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

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

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

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

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

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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 am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

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

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

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

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

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.‘

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

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.

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.

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.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I always make my dreams into goals.

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

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.