Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

To be a successful missionary one must have the Spirit of the Lord. We are also taught that the Spirit will not dwell in unclean tabernacles. Therefore, one of the first things a missionary must do to gain spirituality is to make sure his own personal life is in order.

Ezra Taft Benson

Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.

Eve Ensler

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you’re watching something you do make somebody happy - that’s when happiness happens.

Francis Ford Coppola

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.

Francis Ford Coppola

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

Francis Ford Coppola

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

Jerry Rice

Not wanting to disappoint is what pushed me to be successful.

Jerry Rice

I had that hunger, that desire, to be successful and I wasn’t going to let anything stand in my way.

Jerry Saltz

Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Lunch should consist of at least 1/3 relationship building talk. If you don't have time for business talk, it was a very successful lunch.

Jim Backus

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Jesse James Garrett

As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

Jennifer Lawrence

I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it.

Robert Kiyosaki

In order to be successful, I had to be willing to grow and change to become whoever I needed to be.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you want to be successful on the right side, when it comes to money, you have got to know the difference between facts and opinions. You must know numbers. You must know the facts.

Robert Kiyosaki

All depends on how determined we are to be successful.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you look at any successful person, at the start they were not balanced, balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot. To make progress you must first go unbalanced. Just look at how you make progress walking

Robert Kiyosaki

Failing once doesn't make you a failure. One difference between a successful person and an average person is how much criticism they can take, the average person cannot take much criticism and that's why they fail to be leaders and they do remain average all their lives

Robert Kiyosaki

You cannot be successful without failure.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

To me, it's not a lay-up to be a successful IPO.

Billy Graham

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

Billy Graham

God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient.

Tony LaRussa

You can't be successful without it. It'll make him a better pitcher. He's a talented guy.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.

Michael Shannon

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Michael Moore

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

Shawne Merriman

I had a lot of ups and downs. I always said that if I were in a position to give back, I would and I have. As my name became bigger, I started giving. You want to make that connection with people who are less fortunate. It keeps you in touch with reality. When you become a successful individual, and have a thousand tasks going on, you forget that there are people in need. It keeps me grounded.

Sherry Lansing

The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

Morris Chestnut

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.

Ravi Zacharias

In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing things that, even if we are successful, can never deliver what we envisioned they would. The reason riches become such a snare is because we end up evaluating life in mercenary terms and being seen by others in such terms, and life is just not so.

Randy Pausch

Tradition, history and respect; that kind of qualities I admire, that I want to see preserved. Time is the only commodity that matters. Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well; managing your time well makes you successful. Goals, Priorities, and Planning. Why am I doing this? What is the goal? Why will I succeed? What happen if I chose not to do it? 'Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement'.