Sam Smith Quotes

Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

I treat everyone with the same respect they treat me with. Just because I earn more money doesn't make me more special than them or give me the right to talk to them in a certain manner.

No band is special, no player royalty.

I am a believer in people succeeding on merit.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

There is no distinction of persons among them, and deference is shown to merit rather than to noble blood.

Whatever their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights.

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

There is nothing more unpleasant than watching someone on a TV or movie set act like they are entitled to a particular kind of treatment just because they have been doing it for longer. We are all in the same boat - one job at a time.

At the end of the day, you're just another person in society. It doesn't matter how much fame you have. It doesn't matter how much money you have.

If you have the talent, you should have the opportunity.

I don't really have a political agenda, I just like things to be fair - I get angered by pomposity and privilege.

Anyone can achieve it if they're given the opportunity to.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.

No one man is superior to the game.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

Even though I am fortunate to have certain luxuries, sometimes, I am even amazed by what people with money have and do. I want to remind people that just because you might be rich and famous, it doesn't mean you have to take yourself too seriously.

I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.