Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lithgow

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

John Legend

No matter how big or successful and famous you become, if you do that, that's the most fulfilling thing, is making music that you love and that you're proud of.

John Larroquette

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

John Lasseter

To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.

Jodie Foster

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

Jimmy Chamberlin

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

Jimmy Carr

I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

Justin Timberlake

I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?

Julie Delpy

I've never had help from anyone, ever. I've never had this great director who saw themselves in me, because I'm a French woman in Hollywood. Who could identify with me as a successful director in Hollywood? Nobody. And the few people who could have been mentors, instead they just stole my ideas.

Josh Hutcherson

Whether it happens over 10 years, like with a lot of people, or with one hit movie that thrusts you into that world, when you become successful as an actor, you become well known. In the end game, that's just part of the business.

Katherine Dunham

I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

Katherine Dunham

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

Katherine Anne Porter

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

Katharine Hepburn

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

Katharine Hepburn

When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.

Karen Mills

I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.

Justin Hawkins

I think the more successful you are, the bigger your hair gets.

Judith Regan

The key to successful aging is...to pay as little attention to it as possible.

Kate Smith

And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy.

Kary Mullis

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Lawrence Welk

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

Lascelles Abercrombie

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

Kwame Nkrumah

Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.

Kurt Warner

I've always known that if I got the right opportunity and the right system, I could be successful.

John Keble

When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billow past?

John Kasich

If you talk to anybody who's been successful in business, they will tell you the thing that matters the most are people. And clearly, in this case, the quality of the people was not paid attention to. By the board and I don't know what they were doing. And I think there is a certain accountability by the board here.

John Kenneth Galbraith

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.

John Kenneth Galbraith

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

Joseph Pilates

Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.

Justin Bieber

Everybody just tries to be successful. Like, sure, it's good to be successful, but if you're working that hard? This is how I feel, I work so many hours a day, and I'm always working, I'm always traveling.

Jules Renard

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.