Great Quotes

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

~ Napoleon Hill

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

~ Laurence J. Peter

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

~ David Mamet

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

~ Sylvester Stallone

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

~ Sylvester Stallone

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

~ Betty White

I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

~ Paul Feig

I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

~ Eleanor Catton

Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.

~ Mel Gibson

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

~ Peter Berg

Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.

~ Steve Ballmer

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

~ Peter Ackroyd

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

~ Peter Guber

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

~ William Howard Taft

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

~ Jean Kerr

I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.

~ Scott Brown

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

~ Martin Luther King

Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

~ Kailash Kher

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

~ Henri Nouwen

Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that they are social.

~ Rich Sommer

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

~ Che Guevara

I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.

~ Ashlee Simpson

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

~ Lord Byron

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Love is a great beautifier.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

~ Louise L. Hay

Great thoughts come from the heart.

~ Luc De Clapiers

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

~ Anne Sullivan

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

~ Princess Diana

I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do things. I find these books offer a lot of great opinions on many different subjects.

~ Kourtney Kardashian

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.

~ Amy Chua

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

~ Hector Elizondo

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

~ Janet Jackson

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

~ Jerry Saltz

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.

~ Henry Rollins

I do really silly dancing. I love dancing, but I'm not cool when I dance. It's not about my moves, it's not about how cool I am, it's not about how slick I look on the dance floor, it's about having a great time.

~ Imogen Heap

It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

~ Tom Delonge

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

~ Trey Parker

One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at that time we had never met them, never toured with them before. They were a big influence on Slayer, so to open up for them was really cool.

~ Dave Lombardo