Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imre Lakatos

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

Gloria Stuart

I've been very, very successful. It's very satisfying to me.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

Elton John

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

Hugh Laurie

Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. I'm not saying I reject success, but honestly, I don't quite know how to deal with it. It's an old feeling: As soon as you have the thing you've been going after all your life, that reasonable degree of security, you start kicking against it, doubting it.

Hugh Jackman

The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

Gloria Steinem

Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful fighters already out there. No Logo is an invigorating call to arms for everybody who wants to save money, justice, or the universe.

Gloria Steinem

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

J. P. Morgan

I made a fortune getting out too soon.

J. Michael Straczynski

I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

H. G. Wells

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

Greg Lake

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't confuse wealth with success.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

George Herbert

Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

Gene Hackman

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

Jessica Simpson

I'm a huge fan of Mariah Carey. I admired her music for so long. It's hard to follow on her footstep. She's so successful. Mariah's Mariah. To be compared to her is a huge compliment.

Jerry Baker

Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Brendan Coyle

If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.

Yeah, I did (have the first score), but I try not to think about it. I just try to keep doing what I'm doing, try to be successful and come out with a victory in this game.

Charlie White

The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.

Bernie Mac

There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

Abhishek Bachchan

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

Aberjhani

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.

A. Scott Berg

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

Abbie Hoffman

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.

Aeschylus

Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.