Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Maxwell

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

John C. Maxwell

True success is obeying God.

John C. Maxwell

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

James Iha

I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.

James Joyce

The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.

James Robertson

On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

James Salter

I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.

James Harvey Robinson

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

James Grant

Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.

George Friedman

Success looks like you sitting here pretty confident that an armed brigade isn't going to come pouring in here and blow your head off. Which I don't think is your major concern. Therefore, the United States' foreign policy is successful.

George Gissing

Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

George Gilder

[Successful] projects that entrepreneurs initiated and carried through had one essential quality. All had been thoroughly contemplated by the regnant experts and dominant companies, with their large research staffs and financial resources, and had been judged too difficult, untimely, risky, expensive and unprofitable.

George Foreman

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

Jojo Moyes

Everything takes time... and that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.

Jon Bon Jovi

I'M ONLY AS SUCCESSFUL AS THE GUY THAT LIVES DOWN THE STREET FROM ME.

Johnny Ramone

If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

Johnny Carson

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.

Johnny Carson

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Luc de Clapiers

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

Luc de Clapiers

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Louis Pasteur

These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts.

Jim Rogers

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

John Bruton

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

Lupita Nyong'o

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

Eric Bana

It's got to be a challenge but at the same time you have to feel as though you can play them - it's really dangerous to want to be a part of something just because you think it's going to be great. I've been sent plenty of scripts where I've known that it's going to be a great film and a successful one, but I just couldn't convince myself that I was the right person for the part. So, I think you have to be careful with that.

Emraan Hashmi

Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in the beginning, as you are a risk taker, have nothing to lose, and there is no perception about you.

Emmet Fox

Do it trembling if you must, but do it!

James Cash Penney

The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

Napoleon Hill

We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.

Og Mandino

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Norman Tebbit

We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.

Norman Ralph Augustine

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

Norman Lear

Success is how you collect your minutes.