Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Tennant

She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Niccolo Paganini

Now I am a genius; before that I was a drudge.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

Newt Gingrich

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Mike Oldfield

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.

Joey Bishop

I don't consider success doing a show for 30 years; I'm sorry. To me, you're successful when you graduate from something. I did a series, I did a talk show, I did movies, I replaced Mickey Rooney on Broadway in Sugar Babies. You understand?

Joey Adams

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

John Gray

Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls

Evangeline Lilly

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

Eustace Budgell

When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.

Mika Brzezinski

Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

Kirk Douglas

I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.

Kevin Costner

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.

Julia Cameron

Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.

Judith Crist

The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.

Judith Guest

My success is not who I am.

Judd Nelson

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Joseph Joubert

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

P. G. Wodehouse

You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.

Ovid

Either attempt it not, or succeed.

Ovid

If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

Paul Newman

I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.

Marya Mannes

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

Mary Wollstonecraft

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

Mary Harron

Frankly, you're always up and down. You're successful and then you're not.

Paul Ryan

We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working?

Paul Ryan

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

Paul Goodman

A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.

Joseph Joubert

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

Kristin Scott Thomas

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

Mike Birbiglia

I think our culture views success as visibility, being seen as being successful. Whereas I've learned that success is rooted in helping and connecting to other people, and knowing where you can contribute. I've kind of spent my thirties doing that, because in my twenties I was seeking any kind of success.