Top 100 A Success Quotes
#1. I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.
Bobby Womack
#2. When the man is traveling with a man, he says, "Let's stay up late and work on this and get this to be better." When the man's traveling with the woman, for the sake of appearances he doesn't do the work with her. That's a lost opportunity for her to be a success.
Sheryl Sandberg
#3. Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
Rita Dove
#4. Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list - a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.
Gary Keller
#5. We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.
Rupert Murdoch
#6. Man is meant to be a success. Each of us, he said, is unique and endowed with potentials unlike those of others. Success comes in finding your authentic self, the person you truly are, and becoming that person, tapping all of that untapped potential.
George Sheehan
#7. It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.
John C. Maxwell
#8. If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.
George Clooney
#9. Failure is a success if you learn from it.
Auliq Ice
#10. On the battlefield, (the U.S. war in Iraq) cannot be considered a success. It's a struggle. We're doing what we can to support them with equipment, assistance, training, and sharing any intelligence.
Robert S. Beecroft
#11. Change your perspective. Enjoy every failure as a success and every win as a loss.
Debasish Mridha
#12. The main thing we should be focused on is the strategy to destroy ISIS. And I laid out a plan that the Reagan Library before the tragedy of Paris, and before San Bernardino to do just that. It requires leadership, it's not filing an amendment and call it a success.
Jeb Bush
#13. God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.
Chris Oyakhilome
#14. You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.
Molly Ringwald
#15. I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.
Joanna Lumley
#16. The bonsai grower knows that if she can give life to a product that lives forever and perpetually adds value to the lives of others, she has not only a success but a legacy.
Steven Berglas
#17. Making anything a success rests with people and commitment; strong will to always do the best, confidence in one another.. and absolute determination.
Jorgen Roed
#18. I felt all the time that for the film to be a success the texture of the scenery and the landscapes must fill me with definite memories and poetic associations
Andrei Tarkovsky
#19. Trustworthiness is a mark of a success-minded person. To be seen as trustworthy is a great compliment. When people trust you, they expect that you will honor their trust.
John Patrick Hickey
#20. I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.
Edward Kennedy
#21. If you are doing what you love to do and on the way helping the humanity, then you are a success.
Debasish Mridha
#22. A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!
Richard Carson
#23. I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
Abraham Lincoln
#24. A hardship mentality can make us narrow and defensive. A success and prosperity mentality can make us selfish. An attitude of thankfulness to God, for what He gives us, can make us truly generous.
Charles R. Ringma
#25. Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.
George Bernard Shaw
#26. [Success as panacea and trap:] The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.
Warren Farrell
#27. They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
Mahalia Jackson
#28. Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.
Mary Roach
#29. I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.
Brian Eno
#30. If you have a success, the terror is how on earth can you follow it up.
Peter Wolf
#31. Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
Lydia Lunch
#32. Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at.
Bob Hope
#33. I've always felt like a failure inside if I'm not already a success, if that makes any sense.
Felicia Day
#35. While no other success of ours can compensate for our failures within or outside our homes, there is a success that can compensate when we cannot, after we conscientiously do all we can. That success is the Atonement of Jesus Christ, which can mend what for us is beyond repair.
Bruce C. Hafen
#36. Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.
Robert Breault
#37. It's great being a part time writer. If you sell books you're a success. But if you don't sell any then all you have to say is " writing is just an amusing hobby".
Aaron T. Knight
#38. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.
Muhammad Ali
#41. You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.
Stanley Donen
#43. When countries commit to protecting vulnerable lives, they should receive support from those who can provide it in order to make their programs a success.
Liya Kebede
#44. Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.
Rob Schneider
#45. Failure gives you the experience and the wisdom to be a success in the future.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Oscar Wilde
#47. At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.
Franz Beckenbauer
#48. Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next.
Mike Nichols
#49. Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
Frances Harper
#51. The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.
Steve Martin
#52. Who dare tries is a success, and shall master the art of conquering dreams.
T.F. Hodge
#53. This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
Michael Korda
#54. I don't know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I've had a lot of extra time to enjoy life.
Harpo Marx
#55. When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luc.
Roger Moore
#56. The mouse and his child, who had learned so much and had prevailed against such overwhelming odds, never could be persuaded to teach a success course ... The whole secret of the thing, they insisted, was simply and at all costs to move steadily ahead, and that, they said, could not be taught.
Russell Hoban
#57. To be a success, let go of the past and accept the beauty of change.
Debasish Mridha
#58. You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.
Winston Churchill
#59. I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.
George Burns
#60. We must do everything to ensure that the Euro 2016 is a success.
Francois Hollande
#61. That's why I'm a success, it's because I don't middle in other people's lives.
Melanie Marquez
#62. Moral values have been thrown out the window. Christianity is out the window. And that's wrong. Parents should be at home, teaching kids right from wrong, making sure they get a great education so they can be a success in life.
Albert Belle
#63. I was one of those kids, inner-city youth and finding my way. I made it. I made a success out of myself, surprisingly.
CeeLo Green
#64. You know, you want to be a success. You want people to know who you are.
Elizabeth Hurley
#65. If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Ernest Hemingway,
#66. I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.
Hugh Laurie
#67. "Choices with Clout" "If what we are thinking about doing is likely to produce good results, we can be reasonably sure we will be choosing the right thing to do. You can make a living from 9 to 5, but you make a success during the rest ... "
Wilbur Lucius Cross
#69. Basketball is just something else to do, another facet of life. I'm going to be a success at whatever I choose because of my preparation. By the time the game starts, the outcome has been decided. I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared.
David Robinson
#70. One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
Jessye Norman
#71. Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being a success in college
the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept Yale standards with the proper awe seemed to belittle all those who had.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#72. What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
#73. Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
William J.H. Boetcker
#74. The credit card business is a success story and that's where Citigroup has put most of its efforts so far. Now Citigroup wants to extend the cooperation and success to more areas.
Zhang Xi
#75. I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.
Zack Wheat
#76. The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.
Milton Friedman
#77. When you help someone to become a success, you unknowingly become a success.
Debasish Mridha
#78. Long before I was a success, my parents made me feel like I could be one.
Toni Morrison
#79. To be a success, you will have people walk out on you, walk over you, and walk away from you. If these things didn't happen, you wouldn't have such great people who walk with you, walk beside you, and walk into your life. Cherish the subtractions and you will be blessed with additions.
Robert J. Braathe
#80. I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.
David Cameron
#81. The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#82. Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'
Johnny Carson
#83. Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.
Julius Lester
#84. The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.
Eileen Collins
#85. If the purpose of your life is to seek happiness, you will be happy even if you are not a success.
Debasish Mridha
#86. If you have enthusiasm, boldness, and confidence, you are already a success.
Debasish Mridha
#87. It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.
John Sexton
#88. If you have a success in your life, why can't we hold on to that? Why can't that be good enough for a lifetime; why do we always have to be ramping up?
Jake Paltrow
#89. I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
#90. You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
Florence Scovel Shinn
#91. HAS YOUR LIFE BEEN A FAILURE? LET'S MAKE YOUR DEATH A SUCCESS!
Jean Teule
#92. You know you're a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.
Joe Biden
#94. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.
Zig Ziglar
#95. You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.
John Wooden
#96. Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
Taylor Kitsch
#97. Anytime something becomes a success in this way you always get imitators. I'm an imitator of the guys I love. I imitate people like Frank Miller, who is a huge inspiration to me.
Mark Millar
#98. A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#99. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein
#100. There is no such thing as failure. Everything is a success to whatever degree it is taken.
Morning Sun Yellow Pony
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