Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Mandela

I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.

Neil Tennant

She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Niall Horan

Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.

Niccolo Paganini

Now I am a genius; before that I was a drudge.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.

Newt Gingrich

This is one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they’ve been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we’re in danger…. It’s almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us.

Newt Gingrich

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Mike Oldfield

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.

Joey Bishop

I don't consider success doing a show for 30 years; I'm sorry. To me, you're successful when you graduate from something. I did a series, I did a talk show, I did movies, I replaced Mickey Rooney on Broadway in Sugar Babies. You understand?

Joey Adams

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Joely Richardson

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

Joe Sakic

Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

John Gray

Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right.

John Gray

If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls

George H. W. Bush

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

George H. W. Bush

Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.

Harold Bloom

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

Harold Bloom

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Hakeem Olajuwon

I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Haile Selassie

As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

Jessica Alba

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

Jesse Ventura

I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

Jean de la Bruyere

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Jean de la Bruyere

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others. [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

Jean de la Bruyere

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

Jean Baudrillard

A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a relation of contradiction, misappropriation and destablilisation.

Jayne Ann Krentz

Trust me, I did not set out to establish three pen names and, for the record, I do not recommend it as a career strategy. The idea back at the start was that I would stick with the name that proved most successful.

Jay-Z

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

Jay-Z

I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying

Carly Fiorina

The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.