Famous Quotes & Sayings

Livy

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

Lynn Abbey

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

Lynda Obst

The first thing you notice about women in Hollywood, besides their low percentage of body fat, is how few are married. And the number of great-looking, successful single women without a social life is staggering. ... The most glaring misconception about Hollywood is that it is the romance capital of the world.

Lynda Obst

Everything can be undone, including success.

Lynda Obst

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Luke Donald

The last few years I've been doing the Middle East thing, and it's a tough decision whether to go there and try and knock off some events as a European Tour member, this year I think overall looking at my results, I played a little bit better on the West Coast than I have in the Middle East, so that was another determining factor for coming back here to an event that I have had some success in the past.

Ludacris

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

Louise Penny

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

Louis Begley

I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.

Lori Greiner

I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.

Lou Holtz

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

Lou Holtz

You build a successful life a day at a time.

Lou Holtz

The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.

Lord Mountbatten

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

Lord Chesterfield

In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.

Lord Chesterfield

The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

Malcolm Forbes

You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.

Malcolm Forbes

Noone's a leader if there are no followers..

Malcolm Forbes

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Malcolm Forbes

There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.

Malcolm Forbes

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Gladwell

Working really hard is what successful people do...

Malcolm Gladwell

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

Malcolm Gladwell

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

Malcolm Gladwell

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

Malcolm Gladwell

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

Malcolm Gladwell

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.

Malcolm Gladwell

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

Malcolm Gladwell

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

Malcolm Gladwell

What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus.

Malcolm Gladwell

To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.