Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lyndon B. Johnson

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

Lord Chesterfield

Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.

Frank Luntz

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.

Gustave Flaubert

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Kenny Anderson

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

Oscar Wilde

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Patrick Rothfuss

Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.

Leroy Chiao

As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

Mitt Romney

That's a big lava lamp. Congratulations.

Prem Rawat

Is there something inside of you that is favoring peace? Because if there is, then congratulations: you are a human being. You have just reached, and felt, your most fundamental want.

Ken Blanchard

Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.

Margaret Millar

The sun was shining like a congratulation.

John Green

Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.

P. G. Wodehouse

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

Paul Rudd

Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives us an inward satisfaction, and a certain generous boldness that accompanies a good conscience.

Michael N. Castle

But all of this success came at the end of a long climb.

Rick Riordan

Sadie Kane here. If you're listening to this, congratulations, you survived doomsday.

Rick Riordan

If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened.

Lara Flynn Boyle

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

Simon Schama

In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's a great reverence for history - though it's history as thumb-sucking, security blanket-nibbling self-congratulation.

Tinie Tempah

I met Ellie Goulding at the BRITs. She's lovely. I've got a lot of time for her. I gave her congratulations and whatnot and she let me hold her BRIT. That was amazing - once I'd touched one for the first time, I said 'This cannot be the last time I touch a BRIT.

Richard O'Brien

That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.

Voltaire

The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

Walter Ulbricht

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

Winifred Holtby

we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.

William Saroyan

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Sarah Bernhardt

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

William Ellery Channing

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Zebulon Pike

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.