Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Keen

Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.

Sally Field

Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future.

Rosalind Russell

It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.

Rory McIlroy

With success comes expectation and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

Ron Santo

Everything changes, money rules. In my era, if you were successful, you were going to make money, but you never worried about it.

Roger Zelazny

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Susan Collins

Our success multiplies each time we lead someone else to success.

Susan Collins

The road to success is a zigzag, first pointing this way and then that. If we start with high intention, then magic and coincidence will guide us there despite our lack of knowledge about what lies ahead.

Susan Collins

Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.

Suresh Raina

If you're successful, it's important to enjoy it! I love shopping for clothes, branded clothes. I love shopping in England, Dubai. I like to travel whenever I can.

Suresh Raina

When you're successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you're down and out, you're all alone. That's why it's important to be a good person. Because whether you're a successful cricketer or not can always change, but the respect you earn by being the person you are stays with you.

Thomas A. Edison

I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.

Thomas A. Edison

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

Thomas A. Edison

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

Thomas A. Edison

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Thomas A. Edison

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

Thomas A. Edison

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Thomas A. Edison

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

Simon Baker

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

Shia LaBeouf

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

Sheryl Sandberg

Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.

Sheryl Sandberg

What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.

Sheryl Sandberg

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

Sheryl Sandberg

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

Sheryl Sandberg

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

Sheila Johnson

There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.

Taylor Swift

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Tavis Smiley

I feel like I've been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I'm embarrassed, if I'm slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.

Tanya Tucker

It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

Tony Robbins

Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.

Tony Robbins

Is is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.