Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dale Carnegie

Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.

Dale Carnegie

Do the very best you can.

Dale Carnegie

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Dale Carnegie

If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Carnegie

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Carnegie

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Dale Carnegie

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Constantin Stanislavski

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Colin Powell

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Colin Powell

The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

Claud Cockburn

Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.

Andrew Mason

You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.

Amy Lee

You don’t have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.

Allan Bloom

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

Alicia Machado

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

Ann Landers

A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.

Ann Landers

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

Ann Landers

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Ann Landers

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

Andy Behrman

Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals with friends where I picked up $1000 tabs. These high-priced activities were within my limits because I was extremely successful financially, a testament to my manic behavior, not to mention my involvement in illegal activities.

Andy Dick

You cannot be this successful without having God on your side.

Andy Andrews

Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.

Andy Andrews

And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.

Alyson Stoner

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

Allen West

Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?

Aga Khan IV

Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.

Afrojack

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

Aesop

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

A. A. Milne

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

A. Scott Berg

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

Abbie Hoffman

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.