Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Godin

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

Seth Godin

Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.

Gerry Spence

We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.

Gerry Spence

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Georgette Mosbacher

Success is the process of not accepting failure.

Harry Chapin

I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

Harold Lewis

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

Harold MacMillan

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

Gwen Stefani

We [No Doubt] were making music that was the opposite of grunge and what was popular on the radio, and we were fine with that. And for a garage band, we were massive! We were already successful in our own minds.

Gwen Stefani

I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.

Jane Rule

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

Jane Levy

When I make a movie, I just make the movie. I don't think about the success of it. If it becomes successful, that's an amazing treat. If it doesn't, you had a great time making it and you learned from it, and then you make a new thing.

Euripides

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

Ethan Hawke

If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have to be everybody's best friend, I don't have to be liked, I don't have to be successful, well, one thing I will not do is self-destruct. If you take that out, your chances for success just went up like 800 percent.

Ethan Hawke

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.

Ethan Hawke

The experience on that movie ( Dead Poets Society ) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.

Ethan Hawke

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

Ernst Mayr

New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

Ernestine Rose

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

Ernest Hello

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

Erin Cummings

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

Cassandra Clare

I always thought that eventually there would be a moment where I realized that I had practiced enough and now I was ready to be a professional writer. Then I befriended a number of successful professional writers and realized that none of them ever felt ready. After that I decided I might as well stop waiting to feel ready and just get started.

Oren Peli

I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.

Oprah Winfrey

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!

Oprah Winfrey

Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

I've talked to nearly 30,000, people on this show, and all 30,000, had one thing in common: They all wanted validation...I would tell you that every single person you will ever meet shares that common desire.

Oprah Winfrey

Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.

Oprah Winfrey

The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that's when it works.

Oprah Winfrey

The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

Oprah Winfrey

Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.

Oprah Winfrey

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Oprah Winfrey

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.