Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Russel Wallace

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.

Alfred North Whitehead

A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

Alfred North Whitehead

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

Alfred North Whitehead

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

Alfred North Whitehead

The motive of success is not enough.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Attain the unattainable.

Alec Baldwin

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.

Alec Baldwin

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

Aldo Leopold

To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.

Aldo Leopold

The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal have been subjected to human interference and control. One of these is man himself (medicine and public health). The other is land (agriculture and coservation). The effort to control the health of land has not been very successful.

Albert Einstein

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Albert Einstein

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

Alexander Lowen

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.

Alexander Graham Bell

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Alexander Graham Bell

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Alexander Graham Bell

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Adolf Galland

An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

Adlai E. Stevenson

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Adolf Hitler

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

Jack Roush

To be able to now have this success is a real surprise to me.

Beth Brooke

Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.

I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.

M. John Harrison

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Abhishek Bachchan

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

Aberjhani

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.

A. Scott Berg

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

Abbie Hoffman

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.

Aeschylus

Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

Aeschylus

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Aeschylus

Success is man's god.

Agatha Christie

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

Adam Osborne

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.