Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy Fields

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

Dorothy Day

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

Dorothy L. Sayers

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

Doris Day

if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.

Doris Day

If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.

Donald Rumsfeld

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'

Donald Rumsfeld

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Don Shula

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

Don Henley

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

Dwayne Johnson

In my mind at that time, at 14, the men who were successful were Stallone and Schwarzenegger and guys like that - Harrison Ford - who were these men of action. I was like, "Okay, they're successful, they're not getting evicted, they built their bodies - I'm gonna go build my body." It was like that.

Dwayne Johnson

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to mince about was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

Dwayne Johnson

Success at anything will always come down to this: focus & effort. And we control both.

Dwayne Johnson

If something stands between you and your success - move it. Never be denied.

Dwayne Johnson

Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, "awe s***.. they're up".

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

Dalai Lama

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Dalai Lama

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.

Dolly Parton

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Dolly Parton

I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well.

Dina Powell

Our nation must engage with the rest of the world. But to be successful, we must listen. Our interaction with the world must be a conversation, not a monologue... these exchanges are a strategic pillar of our nation's public diplomacy.

Desmond Morris

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

Derek Waters

You know when you're doing something right and when you're doing something wrong. As long as you feel like you're doing something right, and you're getting rewarded, then you're successful. But, if you're judging it on, Well, if I had that, I'd be successful - that doesn't work. I think doing what you love is success. Pretty cheesy. But it's true.

Derek Sivers

Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.

David Berg

Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial.

Dave Van Ronk

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

Dave Winfield

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

David Ogilvy

Agencies which frequently work nights and weekends are more stimulating, more successful - and more profitable.

David Macaulay

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

Daunte Culpepper

I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful.

Daryl Hall

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Dag Hammarskjold

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Daisuke Matsuzaka

Looking at the players that are truly successful, you see the durability and long careers. Those are the players I respect and look up to. I hope to become a player like that.

Daisaku Ikeda

The person who lives life fully, glowing with life’s energy, is the person who lives a successful life.