Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anwar Sadat

I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge.

Bruce Lee

The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

Brooke Shields

It's okay to be successful and it's also okay to be happy with your success even though it might not be easy.

Brooke Shields

I absolutely would categorize myself as one of successful professional females. I think you can be successful and still be extremely present in a healthy life.

Edmund Hillary

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Edmund Burke

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

Edmund Burke

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

Eckhart Tolle

Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Eckhart Tolle

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

Eckhart Tolle

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

Eckhart Tolle

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

I dont walk around feeling like Im successful. I feel like I did well.

Elihu Root

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

E. W. Howe

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

E. W. Howe

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

E. W. Howe

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

Dwight Yoakam

Control success before it controls you.

Dwyane Wade

Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, these are the guys who can really mean the difference between winning and losing.

Azzedine Alaia

As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.

Phillip Adams

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

Curtis Jackson

You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process.

Eddie Rickenbacker

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

Andy Roddick

I'm the most successful bad player ever.

Albert Bandura

Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm

Albert Camus

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

Alexander Crummell

All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.

Amelia Earhart

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Clayton Christensen

In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.

Clayton Christensen

Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something and it doesn't work and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet. Ultimately you become commercially successful.

Clayton Christensen

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

Clayton Christensen

It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be competitively successful in this situation. But at the other end, where standard components assembled in standard ways can yield acceptable performance, you must outsource.

Claire Danes

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

Daniel J. Boorstin

There is no disinfectant like success.