Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Carell

I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.

Steve Carell

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

Shirley Eaton

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business. I'm really glad that I was famous and successful at the time I was because it was bad enough then in a profession which tended to eat you up and never give you any free time. But I think that the youngsters today have a really bad time from every angle.

Shawn Fanning

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

Shawn Achor

Focusing on the good isn’t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It’s about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.

Shahid Kapoor

I agree when others say I am underrated as an actor... When you give super-hit films then only you are considered as a good actor. At least that is how it is there in our industry. I think you need to be successful to be appreciated.

Shakti Gawain

The most successful people are often very intuitive. Consciously or unconsciously, they follow their gut feelings. Following intuition puts us in the flow - a very alive, productive, and desirable state.

Sergey Brin

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

Scott Walker

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.

Steven Moffat

Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.

Steven Pinker

A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.

Susan Jeffers

I am not a failure if I don't succeed; I am successful because I tried.

Sun Tzu

The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.

Robbie Keane

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

Rico Love

I always say this to people: 'If Shaq can be in the NBA for 19 years and dominate for 19 years using his body, why can't I be in the music industry for 50 years using my brain when my brain is way stronger than anyone's body?' I have to have a successful record company, more hit records. I want to dominate the game.

Rico Love

It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.

Richard Stallman

I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.

Richard Simmons

Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.

Richard Harris

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Richard Hamming

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.

Richard Allen

Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.

Tariq Ramadan

The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.

T. Harv Eker

Many successful people have fear, along with doubts and worries. The difference is that those who know how to succeed also know how to take action despite these worries and fears. You too can learn how to master fear, by understanding that fear is in our own minds, and therefore under our own control.

T. Harv Eker

Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.

T. Harv Eker

Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.

T. Harv Eker

Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.

T. Harv Eker

It's imperative to realize that it is not necessary to try to get rid of fear in order to succeed. Rich and successful people have fear, rich and successful people have doubts, rich and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them. Unsuccessful people have fears, doubts, and worries, then let those feelings stop them.

T. Harv Eker

There is a secret psychology of money. Most people don't know about it. That's why most people never become financially successful. A lack of money is not the problem; it is merely a symptom of what's going on inside of you.

T. S. Eliot

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

Sylvester Stallone

The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.

Suze Orman

Liking who you are and liking what you do can make you an incredibly successful person.

Scott Adams

Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company.

Scott Adams

I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.