Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Jeter

Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.

Derek Jeter

My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

Derek Jeter

I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.

Denzel Washington

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Denzel Washington

When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.

Denzel Washington

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

Denzel Washington

The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

Denis Waitley

Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of your success.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Denis Waitley

There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it

Denis Waitley

By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad

Denis Waitley

The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.

Denis Waitley

Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.

Denis Waitley

The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.

Dee Hock

It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

Dee Hock

You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.

Deborah Kerr

At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor.

Dick Costolo

Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

Deepak Chopra

Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful

Deepak Chopra

Affluence includes money but is not just money. It is the abundance, the flow, the generosity of the universe, where every desire we have must come true, because inherent in having the desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

Deepak Chopra

Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.

Edward Snowden

It's much more important for U.S. to be able to defend against foreign attacks than it is to be able to launch successful attacks against foreign adversaries.

Abraham Lincoln

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

Abraham Lincoln

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Abraham Lincoln

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Abraham Lincoln

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

J. Paul Getty

How does one measure the success of a museum?

Anne Sullivan

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

We're just getting it started, and I don't know how successful it will be. But we're going to have to do something on our own.

Samantha Shannon

For me, just being published feels like success.

Alexis de Tocqueville

A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.

Bashar al-Assad

Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can't possibly claim that it was successful.