Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Charles Caleb Colton

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Charles Caleb Colton

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Carlos Zambrano

I never quit. I never quit.

Bob Woodward

If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.

Betty White

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

Edwin Louis Cole

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

Diane Keaton

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

Abby Wambach

You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit

Bryant H. McGill

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

Anne Tyler

My stories are never quite good enough

Anne Rice

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

Alan Moore

There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.

David Krumholtz

What happened was that none of that [Emmy nomination] really happened. Numbers flew under the radar, and so around the fourth season, I got really jaded and I wanted to quit.

Edith Wharton

Some things are best mended by a break.

Brad Pitt

I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again.

Charles Bukowski

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.

Janis Joplin

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

Bryant H. McGill

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

Dave Grohl

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

David Jeremiah

Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits