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

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

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

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

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

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.

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.

I have goals.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

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

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

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.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

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

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.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

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

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.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

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

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

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

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.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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

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.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Begin with the end in mind.

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

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

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

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

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

All I ever wanted out of my life was to buy my mother a house. By 1995, I have achieved all I wanted materially in life.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

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.‘

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.