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.

Michael Dukakis

The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.

James Allen

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Helen Hayes

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

Lee Ann Womack

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

Mignon McLaughlin

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Johnny Mathis

But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

My mum's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here tonight and I would like if you see her for you to congratulate her because she brought up four kids alone and she deserves congratulations for that.

Penn Jillette

It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.

Max Greenfield

I remember having a feeling like, 'I can't believe this is happening!' Two years ago I was auditioning for The Disney Channel, and now Paul Rudd is saying, 'Hey man, congratulations on your Emmy nomination!

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

Romain Grosjean

I was even surprised when in Spa Kimi said to me, ‘Congratulations on your son's birth!’ this is only thing Kimi said to me in two years.

Steve Kerr

I want to say congratulations to Cleveland and Coach Blatt. LeBron is an incredible player.

Mike Huckabee

Hi, I'm Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, wanting to say "Congratulations, Canada, on preserving your national igloo".

Puff Daddy

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is the engine of success..