Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

Gavin DeGraw

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Gavin Rossdale

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

Gavin Rossdale

When I was lucky enough to be successful, I distanced myself completely from the whole thing of units and selling copies. I just wanted to keep everyone who comes to see me happy. I spend so much time after my shows talking to people who come from all over the world to see me. I'll go out and sign a picture and have a chat.

Fred Thompson

We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster

Fred Thompson

A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.

Frank Leahy

The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.

Frank Luntz

Richard Nixon's career certainly ended in failure but someone who won an election with 60 percent of the vote, won 49 out of 50 states, that makes his -up to that point - incredibly successful. The idea of winning 49 states, incredible.

Frank Luntz

The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to give credit. Part of being successful is to give credit to people who you may not disagree with when they do well.

Maggie Smith

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.

Maggie Q

I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think it's possible. I think that men like women. It doesn't really matter what they do - they love anything. But women don't necessarily like every woman, so I think that's a challenge to get the female audience to not only relate to you but also like you.

Lynn Nottage

If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.

Haruki Murakami

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

Gustave Flaubert

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gordon Ramsay

Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your lap. They're all businessmen and know that customers get intimidated and buy something overpriced. I say, always put them on the spot. 'You come back to me with a red wine at $30, $40. Come back to me with a choice.'

Gordon Ramsay

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

John Dryden

The greater part performed achieves the less.

John Masefield

Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.

Edward Bok

The price of success: hard work, patience, and a few sacrifices.

Edward Bok

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Edward Boyden

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

Edward Albee

I've seen an awful lot of plays that I'd read before they were put into production and been shocked by what's happened to them. In the attempt to make them straightforward and commercially successful, a lot of things go out the window.

Edith Evans

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

Eddie Cantor

It takes years to make an overnight success.

Eddie Cantor

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Eckhart Tolle

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

Holly Johnson

What can I tell you I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.

Holly Madison

I'm happy single, but I'm happy in both cases. I feel like I definitely thrive more as a human and I'm more successful when I'm single.

Hermann Hesse

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

Henry Van Dyke

Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But often faltering feet Come surest to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet The sunrise of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like that apple tree, I try to grow a new little wood each year.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.