Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessica Valenti

Yes, the more successful you are—or the stronger, the more opinionated—the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people will think you’re too braggy, too loud, too something. But the trade-off is undoubtedly worth it. Power and authenticity are worth it.

Jessica Simpson

I'm a huge fan of Mariah Carey. I admired her music for so long. It's hard to follow on her footstep. She's so successful. Mariah's Mariah. To be compared to her is a huge compliment.

Jerry Baker

Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Jennifer Aniston

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

Graham Norton

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

Gloria Estefan

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

Gertrude Stein

Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care.

Jessica Savitch

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

Hudson Taylor

There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.

Howard Stern

I will never feel successful.

Howard Stern

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

Howard Stern

I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.

Ice Cube

Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.

Ice Cube

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

Ian Mcewan

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

Hugh Hefner

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

Hugh Jackman

The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

Erica Jong

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.

Eminem

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

Jason Statham

The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.

Jason Read

People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.

Jason Patric

I dont have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

Hillary Clinton

There is such a bias against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives. You know, the divestment of assets, the stripping of all kinds of positions, the sale of stocks. It just becomes very onerous and unnecessary.

Hillary Clinton

We've had Muslims in America since George Washington. And we've had many successful Muslims. We just lost a particular well-known one with Muhammad Ali.

Hillary Clinton

You just have to sort of figure out how to - getting back to that word, "balance" - how to balance the public and the private efforts that are necessary to be successful, politically, and that's not just a comment about today. That, I think, has probably been true for all of our history.

Hillary Clinton

There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.

Hillary Clinton

The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.

Herbert Simon

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

Herbert Hoover

The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.

Herbert Hoover

The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Evan Esar

If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.