Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Live dangerously and you live right.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins. [Ger., Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliebt . . . aber er gewinnt auch.]

Joe Vitale

Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well.

Joe Torre

I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Joan Ganz Cooney

Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

Joan Jett

I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.

Erik Qualman

We don't have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we do it.

Eric Thomas

I've never wanted to be a doctor, I've never wanted to be an engineer, I've never had that goal, but when you're around people who are successful, you kind of feel some type of way like, I don't want to be a doctor or lawyer but I do want to be successful.

Eric Thomas

Work! Look at the secrets to success, look at your family, your community, your culture, take a look at what they have done to be successful and don't fool yourself. Don't think that you are going to get success on discount.

Eric Thomas

You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.

Eric Thomas

When you want success as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.

Eric Thomas

You think it's going to be easy? Forget about it! Don't even try to be successful!

Eric Thomas

To be successful is never convenient. The things you have to go through, it's never convenient.

Eric Thomas

The reason why you'll never be successful, is because you procrastinate.

Eric Thomas

Your success is not dependent upon a board of advisers, it's not dependent upon motivational speakers who've gone before you,they're living their lives, they're taking care of their family, they're doing what they have to do to be successful, nobody owes you anything, that was the biggest lesson for me.

Eric Liddell

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

Emmanuel Petit

This is why the social networks are successful actually, because we are living in a society where people are frustrated with living their own life but in a quiet world so thats why with the internet they are creating a new world and that is why society has changed a lot in the space of 10 years.

Emma Goldman

Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.

Emma Watson

I think the actresses who are really successful are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

John Holmes

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

John Hickenlooper

And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.

John Hodgman

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

John Hench

I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.