Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Korda

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Michael Korda

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Michael Korda

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

So far, we've had a lot of success pitching, offensively, defensively, and as a team. Hopefully, we'll make that continue.

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.

Gillette is one of those companies where it's about success, and that's who I want to partner myself with.

Vince Carter

For us to have success in that streak, we had to play many types of styles, and we were able to succeed.

I find success with going back and forth.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I feel like I owe something to America, as it is where I found success.

Gilbert Arenas

I didn't have any idea (the success would happen),

Jean Paul

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Jerome K. Jerome

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

Jim Abbott

There are times when you're tired and times when you don't believe in yourself. That's when you have to stick it out and draw on the confidence that you have deep down beneath all the doubts and worries.

Jesse Owens

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.

Jesse Jackson

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.

Jean Kerr

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

James Caan

Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.

James C. Collins

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

James Agee

Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption.

Jada Pinkett Smith

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

Jackie Robinson

A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.

George Harrison

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships.

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

I 'm grateful for the success that( husband) Bill and I have had, we both come from hard-working families. We both have worked very hard.

Hillary Clinton

Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

Eva Longoria

I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start.