Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brainerd

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

Demetri Martin

I never give anyone just one congratulation. Congratulations are always plural. They are similar to grapes.

Craig Ferguson

Congratulations to the NBA champion Boston Celtics - they beat the Los Angeles Lakers by 39 points. Or as Hillary Clinton would say, "Too close to call.

Craig Ferguson

For the first time in history, Congress has 100 women in it. Congratulations. Welcome to modern times, America. It's great having 100 women in Congress. Unless you're in line for the congressional bathroom.

Elizabeth Taylor

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

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.

Denis Waitley

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Charlotte Bronte

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

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.

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.

Charice Pempengco

I was on Twitter and I saw that I had over 1,000 responses and I was like "OK, something happened," so I opened it and it was like "Charice on Glee!" I didn't get an e-mail from the show so I wasn't tweeting at that time. I just watched my fans tweet. And then after about 30 minutes the show e-mailed me and said congratulations.

Bill Watterson

As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

Bob Hope

Congratulations to whoever is finally booking music we love. It's going to get us out of the house after dark!

Charlie Pierce

Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.

Billy Sheehan

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

Aaliyah

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

Jack Nicholson

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

Kenny Anderson

Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.

Jerry Seinfeld

The Olympics is my favourite sporting event. Although I have a problem with that silver medal. When you think about it, you win the gold - you feel good, you win the bronze - you think, 'Well at least I got something'. But when you win silver, it's like, 'Congratulations, you 'almost' won. Of all the losers, you came in first of that group. You're the number one 'loser.' No one lost ahead of you.

Jerry Seinfeld

I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number one loser. No one lost ahead of you.'

Fuzzy Zoeller

That little boy is driving well and he's putting well. He's doing everything it takes to win. So, you know what you guys do when he gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not serve fried chicken next year. Got it?" ... "or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve."

Jim Harrison

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

George Benson

Larry Carlton is an incredibly versatile guitarist who has been a major force for guitar for many years. He is easily recognizable - all you have to do is hear him once and from that point on you'll be a fan, just like me. It gives me great pleasure to extend congratulations to Larry on his 2011 George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations !

George Bernard Shaw

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

Gary Lineker

Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne chance.

Christie Hefner

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

Chris Jericho

Congratulations to one of my favorite opponents and greatest rivals on returning to the WWE. The Rock is the BEST promo man of all time...

George W. Bush

....it is better to succeed with success than failure.

George W. Bush

So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.

Erykah Badu

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

Eva Gabor

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

Eva Green

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.