Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Winogrand

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

Garry Winogrand

It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.

Gail Godwin

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

Gail Godwin

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

Gail Sheehy

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Fernando Pessoa

I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

Fernando Pessoa

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Ferdie Pacheco

I have six different careers, each one of which I was successful in. I was a successful person in life because I helped everybody, because I did not do anything wrong.

Felicity Kendal

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Felix Frankfurter

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Fat Joe

Whoever makes big records is a winner to me. Not the person with the mumbo jumbo, or the biggest diss record, or whatever the case may be. In the end of the day, whoever is most successful, whoever puts out a big record, wins the battle.

Fawn M. Brodie

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

Fanny Kemble

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

Fareed Zakaria

No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

Faith Ringgold

I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here." Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.

Fannie Hurst

Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.

Fannie Flagg

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Ezra Taft Benson

To be a successful missionary one must have the Spirit of the Lord. We are also taught that the Spirit will not dwell in unclean tabernacles. Therefore, one of the first things a missionary must do to gain spirituality is to make sure his own personal life is in order.

Ezra Taft Benson

Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.

Ezra Taft Benson

Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

Eve Ensler

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you’re watching something you do make somebody happy - that’s when happiness happens.

Euripides

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

Euripides

According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

Francis Ford Coppola

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.

Francis Ford Coppola

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

Francis Ford Coppola

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

Francis Atterbury

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.

Jennifer Connelly

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserves success. I have the drive to work. Maybe that's why I've stayed on the fringe.

Grimes

There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster.

Grimes

I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!

Groucho Marx

Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks.

Groucho Marx

Gerald Ford was unknown throughout America. Now he's unknown throughout the world.

Groucho Marx

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.