Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Adler

I believe that adversity and negativity can be an amazing fuel towards personal success.

Jonah Lehrer

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

Justin Timberlake

I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?

Katherine Dunham

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

Lord Acton

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Livy

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

Lynda Obst

Everything can be undone, including success.

Lynda Obst

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Luke Donald

The last few years I've been doing the Middle East thing, and it's a tough decision whether to go there and try and knock off some events as a European Tour member, this year I think overall looking at my results, I played a little bit better on the West Coast than I have in the Middle East, so that was another determining factor for coming back here to an event that I have had some success in the past.

Lou Holtz

The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.

Lord Chesterfield

In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.

Lord Chesterfield

The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

Malcolm Forbes

You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.

Malcolm Forbes

Noone's a leader if there are no followers..

Malcolm Forbes

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Malcolm Forbes

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Gladwell

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

Malcolm Gladwell

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

Malcolm Gladwell

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

Malcolm Gladwell

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

Malcolm Gladwell

To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

Major Taylor

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Live dangerously and you live right.

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.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

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.

Barbara Tuchman

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

Aeschylus

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Agatha Christie

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.