Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

Wilkie Collins

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

Walter Winchell

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

Walter Winchell

Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Russell

The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.

Walter Russell

Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.

Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Yogi Berra

Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.

Winston Churchill

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

Winston Churchill

Success is never final.

Winston Churchill

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

Winston Churchill

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Willie Mays

Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.

Willie Brown

Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.

Willie Aames

I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'

William Zinsser

Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five - just one. So decide what single point you want to leave in the reader's mind.

William Safire

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

William S. Burroughs

Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

William S. Burroughs

Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work ... and if you can build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.

William J. H. Boetcker

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J. H. Boetcker

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

William Jennings Bryan

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

Virat Kohli

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Wong Kar-wai

What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French film, there's a certain flavor. And even though the language is different, if the film is successful, it has something very common and understandable.

Woody Harrelson

Yoga is the best thing for your sex life. It keeps you limber in all kinds of ways. It teaches you to love your body and your partner's body. But more than anything, it keeps your mind liquid, and nothing's sexier than that.

Woodrow Wilson

There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

Woodrow Wilson

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

Woodrow Wilson

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

Saint Augustine

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

Wladimir Klitschko

I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization - the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities - is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.

Wladimir Klitschko

When you're successful for so many years, the scariest part is that you're getting too comfortable because you've had so much success.

Wilma Rudolph

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.