Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessica Lange

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

Jeremy Collier

He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible that his fortune might exceed his fancy; for an advantage always rises by surprise; and is almost always doubled by being unlooked for.

Estelle Getty

People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.

Erno Rubik

I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.

Ernest Hemingway

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Ezra Koenig

Tom Cruise is one of the most successful actors of all time.

Ethel Waters

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

Erwin Schrodinger

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

Ernest Holmes

It is right that we should be successful, for otherwise Spirit is not expressed.

Erma Bombeck

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Florence Scovel Shinn

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

Florence Scovel Shinn

My good now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Fletcher Knebel

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lie within you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

Helen Keller

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

Helen Keller

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

Helen Keller

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

Caterina Fake

No successful company has had ever been the product of just one person.

Cat Stevens

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.

George Eliot

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

George Eliot

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion ...

Gore Vidal

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

Giancarlo Esposito

I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first ac.

Harvey S. Firestone

Success is the sum of details.

James D'arcy

I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

James D. Watson

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Jakob Nielsen

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

Jamaica Kincaid

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

Jaime Pressly

It's very difficult to have a successful series that can continue to capture and captivate an audience and keep people interested. Because the story, you've got to be able to continue to tell this story.

Jack White

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.