Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glenn Beck

Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.

Harry Stack Sullivan

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

Fred Rogers

The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.

Frank Herbert

The successful writer listens to himself.

George H. W. Bush

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

Harold Bloom

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

Harold Bloom

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Hakeem Olajuwon

I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Haile Selassie

As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

Jessica Alba

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

Jesse Ventura

I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

Jean Baudrillard

A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a relation of contradiction, misappropriation and destablilisation.

Kristin Scott Thomas

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Successful films are very dangerous things.

Kristin Scott Thomas

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

Myles Munroe

If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value

Myles Munroe

The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.

Mike Easley

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

Mike Birbiglia

I think our culture views success as visibility, being seen as being successful. Whereas I've learned that success is rooted in helping and connecting to other people, and knowing where you can contribute. I've kind of spent my thirties doing that, because in my twenties I was seeking any kind of success.

Nathan Fillion

I am one of the lucky few who is successful in their career, and I'm really enjoying myself.

Nancy Lopez

Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs....

Mukesh Ambani

Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.

Ken Adam

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

Keegan-Michael Key

If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.

Keith Carradine

My first feature film was a movie called A Gunfight, with Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Karen Black, Jane Alexander, Raf Vallone... It was shot in Santa Fe, Mexico, in 1970, and it was directed by Lamont Johnson. It was the first gig I did when I got to California from having done Hair in New York on Broadway for a year. It was a Western, though! But that film was not a successful release.

Kathryn Minshew

Thinking big is only one part of being a successful entrepreneur.

Julian Assange

As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.

Katie Price

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

Kevin O'Leary

What are the most important qualities that make a successful entrepreneur? The ability to communicate. The ability to express your idea with certainty. That's how you become a leader-even if you are unsure, your ability to explain your vision and your direction is the attribute you need the most. ... Articulate your idea in 90 seconds or less....

Kevin O'Leary

I actually think being an entrepreneur is a state of mind. If you're going to be an entrepreneur, my thesis is that you have to sacrifice everything for some period in your life to be successful. You have to be myopic and completely focused and unbalanced in every way. Once you've achieved success, you're free to do whatever you like.

Kerry Bishe

There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.

Ken Blanchard

Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.

Keanu Reeves

Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were.