Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the rules in accordance with which decent men have had to shape their lives from the beginning .. fundamental precepts, put forth in the Bible and embodied consciously or unconsciously in the code of morals of every great and successful nation from antiquity to modern times.

Theodor Adorno

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

Tessanne Chin

I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.

Margaret Sanger

As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change ...

Marcus Allen

There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful.

Marcus Brigstocke

The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.

Marcus Garvey

Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.

Marcus Garvey

Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have preferred to give away their fortunes to members of other races, than to bequeath them to worthy institutions and movements of their own to help their own people.

Kevin Sorbo

I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about, I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, "What am I afraid of?" I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Kevin Systrom

Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business.

Michael Lewis

People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. As they age and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There's a reason for this. The world doesn't want to acknowledge it either. Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that you have had success, you have also had luck. And with luck comes obligation.

Michael Steinhardt

The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes.

Michael Parenti

The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.

Michael Horton

I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.

Michael Ignatieff

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

Michael Eisner

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.

Patrick Rothfuss

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

Padma Lakshmi

I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

Paloma Faith

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

Lilly Singh

I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.

Lily Allen

People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

LeRoy Neiman

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.

Learned Hand

The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned on when he wins.

Larry Page

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

L. Neil Smith

The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

Paul Singer

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

Paul Stanley

I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

Paul Ince

As long as we are successful on the pitch, then I will be here-unless Manchester United put in a call. But I don't think Sir Alex Ferguson is planning to step down just yet!

Seth Godin

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

Seth Godin

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

Seth Godin

Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

Seth Godin

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

Seth Godin

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.