Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de la Bruyere

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others. [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

Jean de la Bruyere

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

Jean Baudrillard

A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a relation of contradiction, misappropriation and destablilisation.

Jayne Ann Krentz

Trust me, I did not set out to establish three pen names and, for the record, I do not recommend it as a career strategy. The idea back at the start was that I would stick with the name that proved most successful.

Jay-Z

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

Jay-Z

I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying

Carly Fiorina

The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.

Carlisle Floyd

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

Carla Gugino

I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes."

Carla Gugino

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

Candace Bushnell

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.

Buzz Aldrin

It was challenging to understand what was necessary to successfully carry out all the training simulations that we, as crewmen, would experience, and make a very successful use of that training and education.

Bryan Cranston

It doesn't matter if you're good. If you're just good, you won't succeed. If you have patience and persistence and talent and that's it, you will not have a successful career as an actor. The elusive thing you need is luck.

Joseph Joubert

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

Joseph Joubert

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

Kristin Davis

Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them.

Kristin Scott Thomas

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Successful films are very dangerous things.

Kristin Scott Thomas

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

Myles Munroe

Leadership success is measured by the success of your successor.

Myles Munroe

If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value

Myles Munroe

The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.

Mike Singletary

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.

Mike Easley

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

Mike Birbiglia

I think our culture views success as visibility, being seen as being successful. Whereas I've learned that success is rooted in helping and connecting to other people, and knowing where you can contribute. I've kind of spent my thirties doing that, because in my twenties I was seeking any kind of success.

Nathan Fillion

I am one of the lucky few who is successful in their career, and I'm really enjoying myself.

Nancy Lopez

Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs....

Mukesh Ambani

Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.

Ken Adam

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

Keegan-Michael Key

If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.

Keith Carradine

My first feature film was a movie called A Gunfight, with Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Karen Black, Jane Alexander, Raf Vallone... It was shot in Santa Fe, Mexico, in 1970, and it was directed by Lamont Johnson. It was the first gig I did when I got to California from having done Hair in New York on Broadway for a year. It was a Western, though! But that film was not a successful release.

Kathryn Minshew

Thinking big is only one part of being a successful entrepreneur.

Katherine Mansfield

There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.