Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Godin

Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

Seth Godin

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

Seth Godin

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

Seth Godin

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

Seth Godin

Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.

Tom Cruise

When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.

Tom Cruise

I just want to help people. I'm a helper. For instance, I myself have helped hundreds of people get off drugs. In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It's called Narconon.

Tito Vilanova

Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly.

Sol LeWitt

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

Sol LeWitt

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discovered by intuition.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

Snoop Dogg

That's why I'm so successful because peace is my main thing, it's not about money. It's about making sure everybody is having a good time and loving and living and enjoying life.

Socrates

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Meredith Brooks

I want to break the old paradigm of thinking that if you're successful, you have to crash and burn-that all of this won't be there tomorrow.

Mel Carnahan

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.

Michelle Pfeiffer

You can have it all, but you can't do it all.

Michael Shannon

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Michael Moore

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the rules in accordance with which decent men have had to shape their lives from the beginning .. fundamental precepts, put forth in the Bible and embodied consciously or unconsciously in the code of morals of every great and successful nation from antiquity to modern times.

Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...

Theodore Roosevelt

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

Theodore Roosevelt

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Theodore Dreiser

I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.

Trying will do anything in this world.

Theodor Adorno

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

Tessanne Chin

I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.

Terry McMillan

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

Margaret Sanger

As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change ...

Margaret Mead

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.