Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Jeter

My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.

Derek Jeter

I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.

Derek Jeter

We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.

Derek Jeter

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

Derek Jeter

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.

Derek Jeter

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

Derek Jeter

You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.

Derek Jeter

Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.

Derek Jeter

My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

Derek Jeter

I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.

Denzel Washington

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Denzel Washington

When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.

Denzel Washington

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

Denzel Washington

The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

Denis Waitley

Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of your success.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Denis Waitley

There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it

Denis Waitley

By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad

Denis Waitley

The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.

Denis Waitley

Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.

Denis Waitley

The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.

Dee Hock

It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

Dee Hock

You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.

Deborah Kerr

At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor.

Dick Costolo

Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

Deepak Chopra

Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful

Deepak Chopra

Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.

Edward Snowden

It's much more important for U.S. to be able to defend against foreign attacks than it is to be able to launch successful attacks against foreign adversaries.

Edgar Degas

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

Ed Sheeran

I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it's worked.

Ed Koch

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

Elizabeth Ashley

the flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.

Edwin Way Teale

The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.