Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Schur

You can't achieve anything entirely by yourself. There's a support system that is a basic requirement of human existence. To be happy and successful on earth, you just have to have people that you rely on.

Michael Schumacher

When you're very successful, you become careless and try to turn many things into routine.

Michael Korda

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Michael Korda

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Michael Korda

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Michael Korda

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Marianne Williamson

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Marian Wright Edelman

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

Marian Wright Edelman

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Martin Lawrence

For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.

Mark Victor Hansen

You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you.

Mark Victor Hansen

Be grateful for your problems, for they stimulate an "I-can-solve-it" attitude.

Mark Wahlberg

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

Mike Brown

For a successful strategy session, keep the food light, the lights bright, and drink caffeine all night.

Neil Armstrong

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

Nathan Myhrvold

Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

Naomi Mitchison

The lesser evil is also evil.

Mitt Romney

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

Mitt Romney

I'm not going to apologize for being successful.

Mitt Romney

This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.

Mitt Romney

People hear from Donald Trump that he's such an extraordinary success. They didn't know about Trump airlines and Trump mortgages and Trump vitamin network and Trump steaks and Trump Taj Mahal. They didn't realize a lot of small people have been crushed by Donald Trump's rise to become a very wealthy man, successful financially, but this is a guy who has not been a uniform success.

R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?

Publilius Syrus

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

Publilius Syrus

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Publilius Syrus

Successful guilt is the bane of society

Pierre Omidyar

What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

Pierre Omidyar

I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology