Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Nichols

Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next.

Melissa Etheridge

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

Bobby Orr

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

Bobby Orr

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

Benjamin Franklin

Applause waits on success.

Benjamin Franklin

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Benjamin Franklin

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Benjamin Franklin

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Benjamin Franklin

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Benjamin Franklin

God helps those who help themselves.

Benjamin Franklin

Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.

Benjamin Franklin

In success be moderate.

Benjamin Franklin

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

Benjamin Franklin

Success has ruined many a man.

Benjamin Franklin

Success has ruin'd many a man.

Benjamin Franklin

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Ben Affleck

I've got to work really hard and I know exactly what I've achieved because I know how hard I've worked, and I make sure to work as hard as I absolutely possibly can, because I know that's the only shot I have at being successful.

Ben Affleck

But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.

Ben Affleck

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

Ben Affleck

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

Barbara Walters

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Barbara Tuchman

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barbra Streisand

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Anton Chekhov

I don't care for success. The ideas sitting in my head are annoyed by, and envious of, that which I've already written.

Anton Chekhov

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Barry Zito

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

Banksy

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

Baltasar Gracian

Success rarely brings satisfaction.

Baltasar Gracian

Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.

Baltasar Gracian

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

Anthony Trollope

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

Diane Ackerman

Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.