Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phyllis Schlafly

There are many choices out there for young women. And you have to ask yourself whether you want to model your life on the women who let life pass them by and who spend their lives thinking they were victims and that men are the enemy. Or do you want to have a happy life with a successful marriage and 14 lovely grandchildren. The choices are out there.

Phillip Lim

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

Naveen Jain

I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

Naveen Jain

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

Mother Teresa

God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.

Mother Teresa

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

Jim Leach

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

Jim Lovell

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Jim Shaw

I've had far more success than I ever expected. But I do think that a lot of successful artists have an aim to be successful, even if they don't outwardly sound like it. I never really expected success.

Jim Rohn

Successful people are action oriented.

Jim Rohn

Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.

Jim Rohn

Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'

George Lucas

Sometimes people are surprised to learn that most of the films I've made don't work. They've been released but nobody has ever seen them. Maybe 40 percent of them are very successful. That's a very high percentage; most people have maybe 10 or 15 percent of their films work.

George Lucas

I think one of the reasons that Steven (Spielberg) and I have been as successful as we have is because we like the movies. We like to go to the movies. We enjoy movies and we want to make movies like the ones we enjoy.

George Lucas

Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.

George Lucas

Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.

George MacDonald

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

Emanuel Ax

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

Elizabeth Gilbert

All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage at the end and you were happy; or you had the terrible Henry James savage downfall because of your own hubris as a woman, or you've made some great error leading you down a path to ruin. One is the story of love that's successful and the other is the story usually of reckless love that goes terribly wrong that destroys the woman.

Elisabeth Moss

I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it.

Joel Osteen

Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.

Jimmy Nail

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

Jimmy Rollins

I planned on being successful ever since I was young. To me, this is nothing to be surprised about.

Jimmy Hoffa

But because we are financially solid, because we do have an organization that is equipped to handle any situation that comes in front of us, we are successful in getting from the employers what are members want and need without strikes.

Louise Hay

I am as successful as I make up my mind to be

John Daly

General personal principle: You are generally successful to the degree others want you to succeed. So get adopted! And, even more importantly, it's amazing how much you can get done when you let other people take credit for it.

John D. Rockefeller

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

John Chancellor

The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.

Lisa Alther

successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.

Linus Torvalds

Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good a time I've had developing it and leading the project. It does take a lot of my time, but it's time I really enjoy spending, and Linux has continued to be challenging both technically and from a managing standpoint.

Linus Torvalds

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

Lindsay Davenport

While I was always successful... I never thought I'd be one in the world.