Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Dreiser

I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.

Trying will do anything in this world.

Theodor Adorno

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

Tessanne Chin

I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.

Terry McMillan

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

Margaret Sanger

As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change ...

Margaret Mead

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.

Marcus Allen

There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful.

Marcus Brigstocke

The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.

Marcus Garvey

Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.

Marcus Garvey

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

Marcus Garvey

Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have preferred to give away their fortunes to members of other races, than to bequeath them to worthy institutions and movements of their own to help their own people.

Kevin Sorbo

I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about, I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, "What am I afraid of?" I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Kevin Systrom

Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business.

Michael Lewis

People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. As they age and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There's a reason for this. The world doesn't want to acknowledge it either. Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that you have had success, you have also had luck. And with luck comes obligation.

Michael Faraday

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

Michael Bloomberg

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.

Michael Bloomberg

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

Michael Steinhardt

The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes.

Michael Parenti

The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.

Neale Donald Walsch

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

Nancy Sinatra

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

Morgan Freeman

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

Morgan Freeman

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

Milan Kundera

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

Marat Safin

Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Success results when preparation meets opportunity.

Joseph Addison

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Joseph Addison

We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.

Lauryn Hill

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix...

Lance Burton

I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.