Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Martin

I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

Chris Martin

It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.

Chris Gardner

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

Chris Hadfield

Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself.

Gertrude Stein

We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they know that eighty percent of them are not going to succeed more than to just keep going and why if they are not why do they not keep on being interested in the things that interested them when they were college men and why American men different from English men do not get more interesting as they get older.

Gertrude Stein

it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.

Gertrude Stein

Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Fran Tarkenton

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Fran Tarkenton

Winning means being unafraid to lose.

George W. S. Trow

What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.

George Weah

I am always successful in my work.

George Washington Carver

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

George Washington

The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.

George P. Shultz

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

George Papandreou

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

George Orwell

It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, “Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days” or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, “thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!”...

George Meredith

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Success has always been a great liar.

John Ruskin

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

John Poindexter

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

Norman Granz

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.

Norman Finkelstein

Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.

Norbert Wiener

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

Nolan Bushnell

Being successful is kind of dull.

Noel Gallagher

You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.

Noel Gallagher

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

Nina Simone

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Miguel de Cervantes

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Robert Herjavec

Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert a vision into reality. They are driven to realize this goal in a manner that appears to defy logic among others who lack this drive.

Robert Herjavec

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.