Famous Quotes & Sayings

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm successful.

Patrick Rothfuss

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

Padma Lakshmi

I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

Paloma Faith

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

Lilly Singh

I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.

Lily Allen

People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

LeRoy Neiman

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.

Learned Hand

The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned on when he wins.

Ne-Yo

If you want to be successful, you have to be the best person doing it. And in order to be the best person doing it, you have to get your work ethic right and keep going.

Natan Sharansky

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

Mitch Daniels

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

Mitch Daniels

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

Mitchell Hurwitz

Well, at the time, you have to remember that we were not successful. The Showtime offer, as it was presented to me, was half the money for half the show. I was not interested, at that point, in doing a smaller cast and a more simplified Arrested Development.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.

Mark Wahlberg

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

Mike Brown

For a successful strategy session, keep the food light, the lights bright, and drink caffeine all night.

Neil Armstrong

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

Nathan Myhrvold

Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

Mitt Romney

I'm not going to apologize for being successful.

Mitt Romney

This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.

Mitt Romney

People hear from Donald Trump that he's such an extraordinary success. They didn't know about Trump airlines and Trump mortgages and Trump vitamin network and Trump steaks and Trump Taj Mahal. They didn't realize a lot of small people have been crushed by Donald Trump's rise to become a very wealthy man, successful financially, but this is a guy who has not been a uniform success.

R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?

Priyanka Chopra

I've been the saddest while I've been the most successful, strangely.

Publilius Syrus

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Publilius Syrus

Successful guilt is the bane of society

Pierre Omidyar

I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology

Pierre Omidyar

Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.

NeNe Leakes

I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

NeNe Leakes

Why be so nasty and so rude, when I can be so fierce and so successful.

Nelson Mandela

I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.