Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumer Godden

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

Ronald Reagan

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

William Hazlitt

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

William E. Gladstone

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

William E. Gladstone

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Wendell Berry

For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any other standard of measurement. I am no economist, but I venture to suggest that one of the laws of such an economy is that a farmer is worth more dead than alive. A second law is that anything diseased is more profitable than anything that is healthy. What is wrong with us contributes more to the "gross national product" than what is right with us.

Walter Matthau

To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

Walter Russell Mead

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.

Yani Tseng

I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.

Wynonna Judd

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

Wynonna Judd

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

Wyclef Jean

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful

Wyndham Lewis

Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

Wolfgang Puck

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.

Willie Robertson

I think that’s the only way you can ever be truly successful in this world. You have to acknowledge that it is from above. And you have to have the confidence that even if you lose it all, things will be okay. You have to be willing to fail, and all the while work your tail off to succeed.

Willie Stargell

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

Willie Stargell

To be successful, one must take chances.

William Makepeace Thackeray

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

Yash Chopra

You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.

Zig Ziglar

Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.

Zig Ziglar

Success is in the details.

Zig Ziglar

Successful people use their strength by recognizing, developing, and utilizing the talents of others.

Zig Ziglar

I'm an expert in higher level math. You + God = Enough

Zig Ziglar

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

Zig Ziglar

Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.

Zig Ziglar

You don't pay the price for success, you enjoy the benefits of success.

Zig Ziglar

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power

Zig Ziglar

Success means doing the best we can with what we have.

Zig Ziglar

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

Zig Ziglar

Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments everyday.

Zig Ziglar

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.