Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chazz Palminteri

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

Charlie Sheen

You can't not be a little different from others and be successful for three decades.

Charlie Adam

Since I moved to Blackpool, I've met a lot of great people, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be as successful as I was because I'm settled off the pitch.

Charles Luckman

Success is that old ABC: ability, breaks and courage.

Charles Lindbergh

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

Charles Lindbergh

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

William Shakespeare

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Jason Calacanis

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

Bill Murray

People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You're new and you're hot and things go wrong.

Benjamin Jowett

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

Benjamin Haydon

No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.

Bernard Baruch

Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don't pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.

Bernard Baruch

Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.

Carolyn Wells

how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

Agnes Smedley

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

Agnes Varda

I had flops, I had success.

unsatisfactory and detrimental to the success of the team.

Casey Stengel

They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

Casey Stengel

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

Carl Karcher

Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.

Melissa Etheridge

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

Anupam Kher

My first British film was Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend It Like Beckham,' which was a huge international success.

Aaliyah

I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it.

Any time you have success in a situation, you have confidence.

Evan Williams

There's something about just hanging around when it comes to success on the Internet.

Ashley Montagu

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

Ashley Judd

Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It's called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies.

Duke Ellington

There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.

Douglass North

Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over time, the richer the cultural context in terms of providing multiple experimentation and creative competition, the more likely the successful survival of the society

Dougray Scott

The success of the film is down to the crew.

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.