Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Thomas

Work! Look at the secrets to success, look at your family, your community, your culture, take a look at what they have done to be successful and don't fool yourself. Don't think that you are going to get success on discount.

Eric Thomas

You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.

Eric Thomas

When you want success as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.

Eric Thomas

You think it's going to be easy? Forget about it! Don't even try to be successful!

Eric Thomas

To be successful is never convenient. The things you have to go through, it's never convenient.

Eric Thomas

The reason why you'll never be successful, is because you procrastinate.

Eric Thomas

Your success is not dependent upon a board of advisers, it's not dependent upon motivational speakers who've gone before you,they're living their lives, they're taking care of their family, they're doing what they have to do to be successful, nobody owes you anything, that was the biggest lesson for me.

Eric Liddell

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

Emmanuel Petit

This is why the social networks are successful actually, because we are living in a society where people are frustrated with living their own life but in a quiet world so thats why with the internet they are creating a new world and that is why society has changed a lot in the space of 10 years.

Emma Goldman

Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.

Emma Watson

I think the actresses who are really successful are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

John Holmes

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

John Hickenlooper

And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.

John Hodgman

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

Ralph Nader

The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.

Ralph Nader

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.

If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.

If you're to succeed at any endeavor, the first and most important person you must convince is yourself. Success comes not from merely a belief that you can do it. Success comes when you absolutely know you can achieve it

Ralph Bunche

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.

Sean Connery

After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.

Scott Aukerman

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

Savielly Tartakower

Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.

Savielly Tartakower

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

Michelle Mone

Yes, some people will say you get successful obese businesspeople. But are they happy? Probably not.

Michelle Obama

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Michelle Obama

You have to practice success. Success doesn't just show up. If you aren't practicing success today, you won't wake up in 20 years and be successful, because you won't have developed the habits of success, which are small things like finishing what you start, putting a lot of effort into everything you do, being on time, treating people well.

Michelle Obama

Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives.

Michael Porter

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

Michael Phelps

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

Michael LeBoeuf

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

Michael Landon

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.