Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marva Collins

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Mark Twain

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

Ne-Yo

If you want to be successful, you have to be the best person doing it. And in order to be the best person doing it, you have to get your work ethic right and keep going.

Natan Sharansky

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

Mitch Daniels

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

Mitch Daniels

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

Mitchell Hurwitz

Well, at the time, you have to remember that we were not successful. The Showtime offer, as it was presented to me, was half the money for half the show. I was not interested, at that point, in doing a smaller cast and a more simplified Arrested Development.

Marian Wright Edelman

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

Marian Wright Edelman

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Martin Lawrence

For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.

Mark Victor Hansen

You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you.

Mark Victor Hansen

Be grateful for your problems, for they stimulate an "I-can-solve-it" attitude.

Mark Wahlberg

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

Mike Brown

For a successful strategy session, keep the food light, the lights bright, and drink caffeine all night.

Neil Armstrong

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

Nathan Myhrvold

Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

Naomi Mitchison

The lesser evil is also evil.

George H. W. Bush

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

George H. W. Bush

Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.

Harold Bloom

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

Harold Bloom

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Hakeem Olajuwon

I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Haile Selassie

As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

Jessica Alba

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

Jesse Ventura

I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

Jean de la Bruyere

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Jean de la Bruyere

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others. [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

Jean de la Bruyere

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

Jean Baudrillard

A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a relation of contradiction, misappropriation and destablilisation.

Jayne Ann Krentz

Trust me, I did not set out to establish three pen names and, for the record, I do not recommend it as a career strategy. The idea back at the start was that I would stick with the name that proved most successful.

Jay-Z

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.