Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Martin

I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

Chris Martin

It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.

Chris Gardner

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

Chris Hadfield

Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself.

Gertrude Stein

We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they know that eighty percent of them are not going to succeed more than to just keep going and why if they are not why do they not keep on being interested in the things that interested them when they were college men and why American men different from English men do not get more interesting as they get older.

Gertrude Stein

it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.

Gertrude Stein

Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

Gerhard Schroder

A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

Herbert Spencer

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Herman Melville

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Herman Melville

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

Herbert Bayard Swope

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

Herb Kelleher

You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

Henry David Thoreau

We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!

Henry David Thoreau

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

Henry David Thoreau

Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be effected but by one man. Hewho wants help wants everything. True, this is the condition of our weakness, but it can never be the means of our recovery. We must first succeed alone, that we may enjoy our success together.

Henry David Thoreau

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

Henry David Thoreau

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

Henry David Thoreau

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

Henry David Thoreau

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.

Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.

Henry David Thoreau

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

Henry David Thoreau

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Henry David Thoreau

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

Henry David Thoreau

Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

Henry David Thoreau

Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.

Henry David Thoreau

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

H. L. Mencken

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either.