Overnight Quotes

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. (Shania Twain)
It takes years to make an overnight success. View quote
Eddie Cantor
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. View quote
Eknath Easwaran
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. View quote
Jim Rohn
If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught. View quote
Mobutu Sésé Seko
People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times. View quote
Rohit Sharma
Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up. View quote
Dwayne Johnson
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. View quote
George Carlin
I had my 15 minutes of being the new boy of pop, like lots of people before and after me. Overnight, everyone starts treating you differently, and perceives you differently. View quote
Rick Astley
Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey. View quote
Camille Paglia
One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent. (Sandra Cisneros)
The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys. View quote
Seth Godin
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote. View quote
Nelson Mandela
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school. View quote
Rick Riordan
You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight. View quote
Shawn Mendes
Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life. View quote
James Surowiecki
Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money. View quote
Bo Bennett
The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight. View quote
W. Averell Harriman
Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music. (Bonnie Raitt)
The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work. View quote
Caitlin Fitzgerald
It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight. View quote
Chanel Iman
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that. View quote
Chet Atkins
You wake up in the morning; what do you want to know? You want to know what happened overnight. You want to know if you're safe. You want to know if you're family's safe. View quote
Chris Cuomo