Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.

Henry David Thoreau

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

H. L. Mencken

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either.

Jean Genet

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]

Jill Scott

I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.

Jessica Livingston

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

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.

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.

Graham Greene

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Graham Greene

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Giuliana Sgrena

I was set free because the negotiations were successful, because there were people lobbying for my freedom, and because hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Rome for my freedom.

Fran Tarkenton

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Fran Tarkenton

Winning means being unafraid to lose.

George W. S. Trow

What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.

George Weah

I am always successful in my work.

George Washington Carver

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

George Washington

The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.

George P. Shultz

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

George Papandreou

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

George Orwell

It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, “Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days” or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, “thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!”...

George Meredith

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Success has always been a great liar.

Franklin P. Adams

If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.