Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Lippmann

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

Walter Lippmann

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Voltaire

It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

William Feather

He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.

William Feather

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.

William Feather

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

William Feather

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

William T. Vollmann

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

William Labov

I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.

William Lloyd Garrison

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

William Lloyd Garrison

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Hurt

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

William Booth

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

Wilkie Collins

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

Walter Winchell

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

Walter Winchell

Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Russell

The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.

Walter Russell

Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.

Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Yogi Berra

Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.

Winston Churchill

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

Winston Churchill

Success is never final.

Winston Churchill

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

Winston Churchill

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Willie Mays

Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.

Willie Brown

Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.

Willie Aames

I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'

William Zinsser

Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five - just one. So decide what single point you want to leave in the reader's mind.

William Safire

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

William S. Burroughs

Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

William S. Burroughs

Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work ... and if you can build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.