Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

Elbert Hubbard

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Elbert Hubbard

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

Elbert Hubbard

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.

Eleanor Roosevelt

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

Eileen Caddy

Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Eddy Curry

I think I have enough to be successful out there.

Atul Gawande

In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.

Aristotle

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Aristotle

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Ben Horowitz

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur... Eventually

Ben Jonson

The way to rise is to obey and please.

Anne Sullivan

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

We're just getting it started, and I don't know how successful it will be. But we're going to have to do something on our own.

Samantha Shannon

For me, just being published feels like success.

Alexis de Tocqueville

A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which he cannot afterwards shake off. A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.

Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Vonda Shepard

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.

Edward James Olmos

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

Susan Sontag

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Kathleen Edwards

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

Alan Cohen

The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.

Alan Cohen

True champions are team players.

Alan Cohen

We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

Alan Cohen

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

Alan Cohen

Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

Albert Einstein

Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.

Albert Einstein

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.