Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Turner

The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.

Ted Turner

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Theodore Parker

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the rules in accordance with which decent men have had to shape their lives from the beginning .. fundamental precepts, put forth in the Bible and embodied consciously or unconsciously in the code of morals of every great and successful nation from antiquity to modern times.

Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...

Theodore Roosevelt

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

Theodore Roosevelt

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Theodore Dreiser

I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.

Trying will do anything in this world.

Theodor Adorno

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

Tessanne Chin

I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.

Terry McMillan

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

Margaret Sanger

As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change ...

Margaret Mead

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.

Lyle Lovett

It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love

Lulu

I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.

Lucille Ball

remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.

Lucinda Williams

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Louis Kronenberger

The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of the has-been-a shameful rather than a pitiable sight today-brings a sudden chill even to our sunlit moments.

Louis Farrakhan

God ordains opposition so that he may prove to the opponents, who are many in number, to the few that God chooses to bless, that if God's hand is with that few, the many cannot oppose and be successful.

Liv Ullmann

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

Michael Jordan

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

Michael Jordan

I've reached the pinnacle of my career. I just feel that I don't have anything else to prove.

Michael Jackson

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."

Michael Dell

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

Michael Dell

People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be honest: It's one of my least favorite questions, because if you're waiting for someone else's advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you're not one.

Mia Bloom

With a civilian target, female bombers tend to be more successful and cause more damage.

Mia Hamm

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

Mia Hamm

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

Mia Hamm

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.