Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Landers

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

Andy Behrman

Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals with friends where I picked up $1000 tabs. These high-priced activities were within my limits because I was extremely successful financially, a testament to my manic behavior, not to mention my involvement in illegal activities.

Andy Dick

You cannot be this successful without having God on your side.

Andy Andrews

Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.

Andy Andrews

And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.

Kathleen Edwards

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

Alan Cohen

The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.

Alan Cohen

True champions are team players.

Alan Cohen

We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

Alan Cohen

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

Alan Cohen

Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.

Yeah, I did (have the first score), but I try not to think about it. I just try to keep doing what I'm doing, try to be successful and come out with a victory in this game.

Charlie White

The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.

Bernie Mac

There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

Adam Osborne

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

Adam Levine

I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

Abraham Maslow

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

Abraham Maslow

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological height. It is as if psychology had voluntarily restricted itself to only half its rightful jurisdiction, and that the darker, meaner half.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

Abraham Lincoln

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Abraham Lincoln

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Alex Rodriguez

You must be present to win.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

Albert Einstein

Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.

Albert Einstein

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Alfred Russel Wallace

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.

Alfred North Whitehead

A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.