Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Confucius

If you want to change the world, first change your heart.

Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Cyndi Lauper

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

David Cassidy

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

David Cameron

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

To be successful you can't show up to the potluck with just a fork.

Darren Campbell

It's time for us all to step up. We've been extremely successful, but to be honest it's a reality check for everybody.

David Levithan

The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.

David Letterman

Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.

David Letterman

You know, Barack Obama the last ten days was traveling overseas campaigning in Europe and everywhere. It was so successful, campaigning abroad, that he is actually thinking about campaigning here in the United States.

Politically or ideologically oriented evaluations of Chief Justice Rehnquist should not overlook what a successful and popular chief justice he was within the Court as the justices' presiding officer, .. The contrast between Rehnquist's undeniably happy Court and that of his predecessor, Warren E. Burger, could not have been greater.

David Gerrold

The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours.

David Eagleman

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

David Berg

Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial.

Dave Van Ronk

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

Dave Winfield

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

David Ogilvy

Agencies which frequently work nights and weekends are more stimulating, more successful - and more profitable.

David Macaulay

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

Daunte Culpepper

I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful.

Amos Bronson Alcott

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

Anne Sweeney

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

Angela Merkel

I want us to be able to preserve our level of prosperity. We must constantly remind ourselves that Germany has been eating into its capital. It is only through successful management that we can once again secure our foundation of prosperity and social security.

Althea Gibson

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

Allison Williams

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

Anne Rice

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

Anna Garlin Spencer

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

Anna Eshoo

We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.

Anita Defrantz

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

Andrew Tan

Doing business is all about providing a good product or service to your customers. A good businessman is he who knows that what is successful today may not be so tomorrow. Technology changes so fast, and so do people's needs and wants. That's why it would do well for a businessman to know how to adapt to change. He must constantly reinvent the business, or it won't last.

Andrew Tobias

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

Andrew Sullivan

The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.