Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.

Mark Wahlberg

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

Mike Brown

For a successful strategy session, keep the food light, the lights bright, and drink caffeine all night.

Neil Armstrong

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

Nathan Myhrvold

Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

Mitt Romney

I'm not going to apologize for being successful.

Mitt Romney

This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.

Mitt Romney

People hear from Donald Trump that he's such an extraordinary success. They didn't know about Trump airlines and Trump mortgages and Trump vitamin network and Trump steaks and Trump Taj Mahal. They didn't realize a lot of small people have been crushed by Donald Trump's rise to become a very wealthy man, successful financially, but this is a guy who has not been a uniform success.

R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?

Priyanka Chopra

I've been the saddest while I've been the most successful, strangely.

Publilius Syrus

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Publilius Syrus

Successful guilt is the bane of society

Judd Apatow

I don't really get attached to anything. I'm pretty brutal about cutting stuff. With each successful movie, I've discovered anything that's not connected to the immediate story is going to be cut out of it.

Judd Apatow

Something economically changed. It used to be that you needed 20 million people to watch a TV show for it to be a hit. Now, with just a few million people watching, you're considered very successful, for a lot of these streaming services, or cable channels. Now, that allows people to do much more creatively ambitious work, because it's not lowest common denominator.

Judd Apatow

The Cable Guy was underbudgeted, so it was always a debate about whether we could have more days or certain things that we needed, because the budget was determined before the script was written. So that made it a hard production on everybody. But it's also a funny thing, because it's one of those movies that cost $40 million to make and made $100 million around the world, but at the time, it seemed like a disaster that it didn't make hundreds of millions of dollars, because Jim was on such a tear. But it was actually a successful movie.

Joseph Sobran

The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm 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!

Ken Blanchard

Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.