Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lasseter

To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.

Jim Lovell

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Denzel Washington

When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.

Denis Waitley

By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad

William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Carolyn Wells

how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

Chester Bennington

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Charles M. Schwab

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

Charles Handy

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

Madeleine Albright

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance.... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

Camille Paglia

I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.

Bruno Tonioli

In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.

Dick Costolo

Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

Benjamin Franklin

Success has ruined many a man.

Ben Affleck

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

Barbara Tuchman

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Bill Frist

Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.

Bill Gates

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Bill Gates

The best teacher is very interactive.

Bill Gates

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

Bill Gates

China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

Bob Goodlatte

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

Charles Luckman

Success is that old ABC: ability, breaks and courage.

Charles Lindbergh

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

Charles Lindbergh

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

This is not a new thing. It has been successful in other schools.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.