Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Hemingway

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Ethel Waters

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

Erma Bombeck

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Florence Scovel Shinn

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

Florence Scovel Shinn

My good now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Fletcher Knebel

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

Fawn M. Brodie

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

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.

Faith Ringgold

I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here." Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.

Fannie Hurst

Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.

Fannie Flagg

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

Faith Hill

Success is about evolution. Change is healthy. I like to reinvent myself.

Ezra Taft Benson

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

Ezra Taft Benson

Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

Euripides

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

Euripides

According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

Francis Atterbury

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

Fran Tarkenton

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Fran Tarkenton

Winning means being unafraid to lose.

George W. S. Trow

What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.

George Washington

The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.

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!”...

George Meredith

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

Chris Pine

Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job.

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 W. Bush

Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty.

George W. Bush

We'll succeed unless we quit.

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.