Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aeschylus

Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

Aeschylus

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Aeschylus

Success is man's god.

Agatha Christie

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

Adam Osborne

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

Adam Levine

I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

Abraham Maslow

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

Abraham Maslow

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological height. It is as if psychology had voluntarily restricted itself to only half its rightful jurisdiction, and that the darker, meaner half.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

Abraham Lincoln

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Abraham Lincoln

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Alex Rodriguez

You must be present to win.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

Beth Brooke

Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.

I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.

M. John Harrison

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Abhishek Bachchan

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

Aberjhani

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.

Clara Barton

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Claire McCaskill

I want to compliment the fraternity and sorority organizations for taking the time to meet with us and then removing their support from the legislation that would have been so counterproductive for a goal that I think we all share - and that is making campuses safer and the successful prosecution of people who commit serious crimes. So, good on them that they backed off, and we don't have to fight them.

Daniel Quinn

The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize events into stories were more successful than hunters who weren't—and this success translated directly into reproductive success. In other words, hunters who were storytellers tended to be better represented in the gene pool than hunters who weren't, which (incidentally) accounts for the fact that storytelling isn't just found here and there among human cultures, it's found universally.

Daniel Radcliffe

I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else.

Damien Fahey

It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes

Cynthia Nixon

Nancy Reagan sort of downplayed that, you know - but she was quite successful. At the time she married Ronald Reagan, I think she was keenly aware that [Reagan's first wife] Jane Wyman's career had eclipsed Ronald Reagan's, so she was very determined not to have that happen.

Clive Anderson

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

E. B. White

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

Dustin Johnson

Obviously, it's one of my biggest wins, and especially after a long layoff, to come back out and win in my fifth start, means a lot, i've been working hard on my game and been working hard on me, and so it means a great deal to have some success right out of the gate. It gives me a lot of confidence, too.

Dustin Hoffman

I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.

Dustin Hoffman

To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.

Dustin Hoffman

Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.

Drew Houston

The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.