Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Keble

When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billow past?

John Kenneth Galbraith

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

John D. Rockefeller

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

John D. Rockefeller

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

John D. Rockefeller

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

John D. Rockefeller

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

Linda Evans

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

Linda Chavez

Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.

Lil Wayne

Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.

Peter James

...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

Pete Sampras

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

Pearl Cleage

I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.

Phyllis McGinley

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Rabindranath Tagore

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

Rabindranath Tagore

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

Puff Daddy

If you want something bad enough and you have that desire, you'll walk to another state or country if you have to.

Puff Daddy

I demand the best. Sleep is forbidden. If you work for me, you have to roll how I roll. Im not really human. Im like a machine.

Koichi Tanaka

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

Kenneth Branagh

My definition of success is control.

Kathleen Winsor

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

Kathleen Winsor

success is often harder to take than failure ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

Jules Renard

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

George Lucas

If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.

Joel Osteen

Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.

Madeleine L'Engle

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

John F. Kennedy

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy

Failure has no friends.

John F. Kennedy

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

Jonathan Haidt

Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.