Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madonna Ciccone

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

Madonna Ciccone

If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

Madonna Ciccone

I always thought I should be treated like a star.

Lucille Ball

remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.

Lucinda Williams

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Louis Kronenberger

The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of the has-been-a shameful rather than a pitiable sight today-brings a sudden chill even to our sunlit moments.

Liv Ullmann

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

Michael Jordan

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

Michael Jordan

I've reached the pinnacle of my career. I just feel that I don't have anything else to prove.

Michael Jackson

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."

Michael Dell

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

Mia Hamm

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

Mia Hamm

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

Mia Hamm

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

Aaron Eckhart

If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

Abraham Lincoln

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

George Harrison

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

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

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.

Fanny Kemble

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

Fannie Flagg

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Ezra Taft Benson

Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.

Francis Atterbury

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.

George Orwell

It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, “Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days” or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, “thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!”...

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

George Strait

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

George R. R. Martin

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

Jean Cocteau

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

Gail Godwin

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

Gail Sheehy

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Helen Keller

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

Cat Stevens

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.

George Eliot

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.