Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Susan B. Anthony

When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly!

David Sarnoff

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

Alan Hansen

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

Alain Prost

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

Edmund Burke

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Brett Favre

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

Brett Favre

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

Bruce Springsteen

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Brian Clough

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.

Diane von Furstenberg

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

David Sedaris

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.

David Suchet

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

David Naughton

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

Brunello Cucinelli

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

Bryan Sykes

There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. . . I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. . . . We're very closely related.

Al Pacino

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

Chita Rivera

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

Carlos Boozer

Sometimes we win; more times than not, we don't. But that's his choice.

Carlos Beltran

I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs.

Agnieszka Radwanska

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

Aaron Staton

I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

Aaron Sorkin

The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.

Alan Shearer

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

Charlie Ergen

If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.

Charles Tillman

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.