Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederick William Robertson

On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

Fred Astaire

If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.

Erich Fromm

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

Erich Fromm

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Erica Jong

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.

Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

Enya

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

George Eliot

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

George Eliot

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Gary Sinise

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Gabe Newell

Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

Gabe Newell

The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

Gabe Newell

Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.

George Jean Nathan

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

George Jean Nathan

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

George Jean Nathan

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

George Jean Nathan

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

Chris Hardwick

If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.

Chris Hardwick

When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem.

Christian Siriano

For me I'm a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it's not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it's about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.

In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.

The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in our hands - and has revealed to us some of its innermost secrets and tricks for developing from a single celled egg to a complex living being of great beauty and harmony. ... None of us expected that our work would be so successful or that our findings would ever have relevance to medicine.

Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.

Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

Christa McAuliffe

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

Christian Bale

I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.

Chris Pine

Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job.

Chris Lehane

If you tell people what you are going to do, and you suggest it's going to be successful, you need to be successful. Because once you create those expectations and you don't fulfill them, when you already have a significant credibility problem, it just further degrades your credibility.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

George W. Bush

Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty.

George W. Bush

The fundamental question is: 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective.

George W. Bush

We'll succeed unless we quit.