Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Godin

Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

Seth Godin

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

Seth Godin

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

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.

Tom Cruise

When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.

Tom Cruise

I just want to help people. I'm a helper. For instance, I myself have helped hundreds of people get off drugs. In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It's called Narconon.

Tito Vilanova

Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly.

Sol LeWitt

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

Sol LeWitt

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the artist is free to even surprise himself. Ideas are discovered by intuition.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

Snoop Dogg

That's why I'm so successful because peace is my main thing, it's not about money. It's about making sure everybody is having a good time and loving and living and enjoying life.

Socrates

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Meredith Brooks

I want to break the old paradigm of thinking that if you're successful, you have to crash and burn-that all of this won't be there tomorrow.

Mel Carnahan

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.

Michelle Pfeiffer

You can have it all, but you can't do it all.

Michael Shannon

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Michael Moore

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

Shawne Merriman

I had a lot of ups and downs. I always said that if I were in a position to give back, I would and I have. As my name became bigger, I started giving. You want to make that connection with people who are less fortunate. It keeps you in touch with reality. When you become a successful individual, and have a thousand tasks going on, you forget that there are people in need. It keeps me grounded.

Sherry Lansing

The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

Nicolas Chamfort

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Mort Walker

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

Morris Chestnut

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.

Mike McGavick

XL is a world class brand with very successful insurance, reinsurance and life reinsurance businesses and I look forward to helping it realize its full potential.

Mike Murdock

A successful life is expensive; it will cost you something to become a champion.

John Wooden

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

John Wooden

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

John Wooden

When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details.

John Wooden

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

John Ruskin

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

John Poindexter

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.