Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauryn Hill

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix...

Lance Burton

I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.

Lance Armstrong

The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.

John Updike

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

John Stuart Mill

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill

The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

John Rhys-Davies

I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

James Iha

I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.

James Joyce

The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.

James Robertson

On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

James Salter

I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.

James Harvey Robinson

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

James Harden

This year I've just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.

James Harden

Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.

James Grant

Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.

James Fallows

Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good.

Laurence Sterne

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

Laurence Sterne

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Liana Liberato

There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

George Friedman

Success looks like you sitting here pretty confident that an armed brigade isn't going to come pouring in here and blow your head off. Which I don't think is your major concern. Therefore, the United States' foreign policy is successful.

George Gissing

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

George Gissing

Have the courage of your desire.

George Gilder

[Successful] projects that entrepreneurs initiated and carried through had one essential quality. All had been thoroughly contemplated by the regnant experts and dominant companies, with their large research staffs and financial resources, and had been judged too difficult, untimely, risky, expensive and unprofitable.

George Gilder

A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again.

George Foreman

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

George Foreman

Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Just learn from the guys who have already done it well. You need a mentor, a seasoned coach who is willing to share his wisdom and experience with you. Ask someone who has already been successful to guide you.

Jon Krakauer

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

Jojo Moyes

Everything takes time... and that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.

Jon Bon Jovi

I'M ONLY AS SUCCESSFUL AS THE GUY THAT LIVES DOWN THE STREET FROM ME.

Jon Bon Jovi

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

Johnny Ramone

If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

Johnny Carson

You become successful, the way I see it, only if you're good enough to deliver what the public enjoys. If you're not, you won't have any audience; so the performer really has more to do with his success than the public does.