Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Like all successful politicians I married above myself.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pessimism never won any battle.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Douglas Bader

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

Douglas Adams

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.

Douglas Adams

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

Douglas Adams

He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.

Douglas Adams

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

Dorothea Brande

Act as though it is impossible to fail.

Doris Lessing

Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.

Donna Summer

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

Donna Shalala

I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.

Donna Tartt

I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because "no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view."

Donald Knuth

The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

Don Tapscott

To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.

Donal Logue

It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments, and very welcoming.

Don Rickles

Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.

Don Rickles

Showbiz is great if you're successful.

Dale Carnegie

Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.

Dale Carnegie

Do the very best you can.

Dale Carnegie

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Dale Carnegie

If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Carnegie

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Carnegie

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Dale Carnegie

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Constantin Stanislavski

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Colin Powell

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Colin Powell

The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

Claud Cockburn

Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.

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.