Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Jeter

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

Derek Jeter

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.

Derek Jeter

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

Derek Jeter

You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.

Derek Jeter

Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.

Derek Jeter

My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

Derek Jeter

I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.

Denzel Washington

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

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.

Denzel Washington

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

Denzel Washington

The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

unsatisfactory and detrimental to the success of the team.

William Shakespeare

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Louis C. K.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

Louis C. K.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

Mark Cuban

What I’ve learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you’ll find that you put the time in. You won’t just ask somebody if it’s a good idea, you’ll go figure out if it’s a good idea.

Mark Cuban

Expect the unexpected, and always be ready - everyone has inside them what it takes to be successful. You just have to be ready to unleash it when the opportunity presents itself.

Mark Cuban

Being successful entails being able to not only get along with people, but also to give something back

Mark Cuban

With every effort, I learned a lot. With every mistake and failure, not only mine, but of those around me, I learned what not to do. I also got to study the success of those I did business with as well. I had more than a healthy dose of fear, and an unlimited amount of hope, and more importantly, no limit on time and effort.

Madeleine Albright

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

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.

Mike Nichols

Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next.

Melissa Etheridge

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

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.

Caitlin Thomas

There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every Artist: whether he admits it or not; naturally wants to get into.

Bruno Tonioli

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

Casey Stengel

They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

Casey Stengel

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

Carl Karcher

Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.

Bill Murray

People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You're new and you're hot and things go wrong.

Benjamin Jowett

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.