Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Swanson

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Isaac Asimov

The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

Elon Musk

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Elton John

I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.

Elton John

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

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.

Ellen Barkin

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

Ellen DeGeneres

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends'.I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

Ian Mcewan

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

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.