Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Goodlatte

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

Chazz Palminteri

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

Charlie Sheen

You can't not be a little different from others and be successful for three decades.

Charlie Adam

Since I moved to Blackpool, I've met a lot of great people, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be as successful as I was because I'm settled off the pitch.

Charles Luckman

Success is that old ABC: ability, breaks and courage.

Charles Lindbergh

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

Charles Lindbergh

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Billy Eckstine

You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

Billy Joel

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

Bill Phillips

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.

Bill Peterson

The Frankfurt Galaxy( The NFL Europe team) always had tremendous success, at that time there were 2,000 American football clubs in Europe playing the game from juniors through to adults.

Bill Rancic

If I can lead a happy life, touch the lives of others in a positive way, win the respect of those that I care about... and make a few million along the way, then I have been successful.

Bill Russell

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

Beverly Sills

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

Betty White

Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.

Beyonce Knowles

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Bernard Williams

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful

Bernhard Schlink

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

Edward Gibbon

The Romans, who so coolly and so concisely mention the acts of justice which were exercised by the legions, reserve their compassion and their eloquence for their own sufferings, when the provinces were invaded and desolated by the arms of the successful Barbarians.

Edith Piaf

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

Eddie Murphy

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

Earl Wilson

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

David Rockefeller

Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.

David Hilbert

A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution.

Deana Carter

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.

Edgar Allan Poe

The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I never waste time looking back.

Elbert Hubbard

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Elbert Hubbard

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

Elbert Hubbard

Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.

Elbert Hubbard

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.