Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska. This is the kind of thing that is is gratifying to a President, but to be on a solitary stream with good friends, with a fly rod in your hand, and to have a successfull or even an unsuccessful day-they're all successful-is an even greater delight.

John C. Maxwell

Successful people don't make a daily decision to grow. The decision has already been made and just needs to be fed. To feed success you must ... know your purpose in life, grow daily to reach your maximum potential, and sow seeds that benefit others. Remember, success is not a destination; it's a daily thing.

John C. Maxwell

The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.

James Surowiecki

One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

James McAvoy

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'

James Marsden

If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look.

Elmer Bernstein

One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.

Edward de Bono

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Edward Boyden

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

Edward Albee

I've seen an awful lot of plays that I'd read before they were put into production and been shocked by what's happened to them. In the attempt to make them straightforward and commercially successful, a lot of things go out the window.

Edith Evans

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

Eckhart Tolle

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

Holly Johnson

What can I tell you I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.

Holly Madison

I'm happy single, but I'm happy in both cases. I feel like I definitely thrive more as a human and I'm more successful when I'm single.

Henri Nouwen

The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.

Heidi Julavits

It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many writers have writer spouses.

Hesiod

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

Herodotus

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

Henry Ford

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

Henry Ford

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

Helen Reddy

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

Helen Mirren

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

Helen Mirren

There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room.

Henry Kravis

And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.

Henry Cloud

Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.

John Krasinski

There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.

Gordon Ramsay

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

John Linder

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.

John Lithgow

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

John Legend

No matter how big or successful and famous you become, if you do that, that's the most fulfilling thing, is making music that you love and that you're proud of.

John Larroquette

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

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.

Jodie Foster

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.