Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George Jean Nathan

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

Isabel Allende

And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.

Irving Berlin

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Franz Grillparzer

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

Jermaine Dupri

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

Jeff Cooper

Regardless of what we think we know and should happen the reality is that a lot of stock action is random. Therefore, money management is crucial if you want to be successful as a trader. To me, it`s the cornerstone of both making a living at trading and building wealth.

Jeff Bridges

Sometimes you feel you're making something really special and when it comes out you might still feel that way but for some reason it doesn't get the audience. So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film.

George S. Patton

Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.

Jeff Pentland

Northleaf is delighted to have been chosen to manage the new fund. We look forward to implementing the fund's long-term strategy of constructing a portfolio of high-potential venture capital funds with the scale and resources to execute their plans, support successful high-growth companies and deliver world-class returns.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

Eminem

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

Harrison Ford

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

Guy Laliberte

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

Guy Kawasaki

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

Guy Kawasaki

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

Greg Fitzsimmons

The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.

Gerry Spence

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gwen Stefani

I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.

Jack Canfield

To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.

Jack Canfield

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

J. J. Abrams

It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.

Ilham Aliyev

As a whole, the election process before the election and on the day of election was successful, and I think Azerbaijan had normal and democratic elections,

Jack Nicklaus

Pressure is what you live for...if you are going to be successful in life, you're going to have pressure.

B. R. Ambedkar

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Bill Condon

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Bill Crawford

The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised.

Bill Cosby

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.