Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Prager

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

Edsger Dijkstra

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Eddie Rickenbacker

And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be spoiled either by his successes or by the generous congratulations of his comrades. If he were capable of being spoiled he would not have had the character to have won continuous victories, for the smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Self-distrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

Eddie Rickenbacker

There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

Ed Miliband

Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Christopher Paolini

Congratulations, you've just been promoted!

Anthony de Mello

Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. 'You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.

Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

In any war, people will pay the price.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Art Buchwald

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

Babette March

I never thought I wouldnt succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

Augusto Pinochet

I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.

Damian Lewis

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation,

Abraham Lincoln

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

Albert Einstein

Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

Rita Hayworth

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.

Tony Robbins

You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.

Tony Robbins

There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.

Ricky Ponting

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.