Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Goldwater

A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.

Barbara Bush

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Antonio Machado

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

Antonio Porchia

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

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.

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.