Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugh Laurie

Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. I'm not saying I reject success, but honestly, I don't quite know how to deal with it. It's an old feeling: As soon as you have the thing you've been going after all your life, that reasonable degree of security, you start kicking against it, doubting it.

Hugh Hefner

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

Hugh Jackman

The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

Homer

It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.

Gloria Steinem

Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful fighters already out there. No Logo is an invigorating call to arms for everybody who wants to save money, justice, or the universe.

Gloria Steinem

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

J. P. Morgan

I made a fortune getting out too soon.

J. Michael Straczynski

I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

H. G. Wells

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

H. G. Wells

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Greg Lake

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't confuse wealth with success.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

George Herbert

Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

Gene Fowler

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Gene Hackman

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

Gary Kemp

Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.

Gary Hamel

... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own. [2002] p.46

Gary Hamel

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

Jessica Valenti

Yes, the more successful you are—or the stronger, the more opinionated—the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people will think you’re too braggy, too loud, too something. But the trade-off is undoubtedly worth it. Power and authenticity are worth it.

Jessica Simpson

I'm a huge fan of Mariah Carey. I admired her music for so long. It's hard to follow on her footstep. She's so successful. Mariah's Mariah. To be compared to her is a huge compliment.

Jerry Baker

Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Our success has been obvious, at least from the word on the streets, and I feel like we have opportunities that are still arising.

Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Edward James Olmos

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

Susan Sontag

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Vonda Shepard

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.