Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Lloyd Webber

If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that.

Andre Leon Talley

I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.

Andre Leon Talley

Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.

Andre Malraux

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

Anna Sui

I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.

Anna Wintour

It's possible in today's world to be instantly famous, whether it's through Instagram or whatever platform it may be, but it's a very different matter to be successful financially and in the long-term

Anna Wintour

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

Anna Wintour

Models today, she explained, don't understand that to be successful you have to have a personality, intelligence, and issues that you support, and Gisele embodies these qualities.

Amy Lee

You don’t have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.

Allan Bloom

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

Alicia Machado

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

Ann Landers

A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.

Ann Landers

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

Ann Landers

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Andy Behrman

Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals with friends where I picked up $1000 tabs. These high-priced activities were within my limits because I was extremely successful financially, a testament to my manic behavior, not to mention my involvement in illegal activities.

Andy Dick

You cannot be this successful without having God on your side.

Andy Andrews

Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.

Andy Andrews

And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.

Alyson Stoner

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

Allen West

Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?

Aga Khan IV

Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.

Afrojack

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

Jane Addams

It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.

Jan Cameron

To be able to donate money to effect change is extremely exciting. I think I'm very determined and persistent. All the things that you need to deliver a successful business and I think these qualities will be useful in the campaign with the Animal Justice Fund.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

Jane Harman

Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.

Jane Harman

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.

Richard G. Scott

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

Susan B. Anthony

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

Brian De Palma

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit

Brian Chesky

We start with the perfect experience and then work backward. That's how we're going to continue to be successful.

Booker T. Washington

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.