Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Henri Nouwen

The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.

Heidi Julavits

It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many writers have writer spouses.

Hayley Williams

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.

Hermione Gingold

One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

Herschel Walker

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

Hesiod

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

Hesiod

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

Herodotus

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

Henry Petroski

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

Henry Ford

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Henry Ford

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

Henry Ford

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Henry Ford

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

Henry Ford

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

Henry Ford

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Helen Reddy

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

Helen Mirren

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

Helen Mirren

There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room.

Henry Ward Beecher

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Henry Ward Beecher

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Henry Ward Beecher

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

Henry Ward Beecher

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

Henry Ward Beecher

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

Henry Kravis

And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.

Henry Cisneros

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

Henry Flynt

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

Henry Cloud

Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.

Henry Cloud

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

Henry Fielding

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

Henry Fielding

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

Helen Thomas

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

John Krasinski

There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.