Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orison Swett Marden

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

Orison Swett Marden

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

Novak Djokovic

You have to consistently be successful to be one of the top players in the world, and everything is possible in life.

Novak Djokovic

I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.

Henry Ward Beecher

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Henry Ward Beecher

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Henry Ward Beecher

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

Henry Ward Beecher

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

Henry Ward Beecher

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

Henry Kravis

And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.

Henry Cisneros

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

Henry Flynt

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

Henry Cloud

Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.

Henry Cloud

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

Henry Fielding

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

Henry Fielding

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

Helen Thomas

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

John Krasinski

There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.

John Mortimer

I don't think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you've done it...

John Denver

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

John Cale

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

John Calipari

A successful person never loses...they either win or learn!

John B. Larson

We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services.

John B. S. Haldane

My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.

Joey Skaggs

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

Joel Klein

In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.

Joan Rivers

to maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.

Joan Rivers

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

Jonathan Ive

We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money. It sounds a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal and what makes us excited is to make great products. If we are successful people will like them and if we are operationally competent, we will make money,

Jonathan Haidt

Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.

Jonathan Adler

I believe that adversity and negativity can be an amazing fuel towards personal success.

Jonah Lehrer

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.