Be Successful You Quotes

#1. The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.

Nido R. Qubein

#2. You need lucky breaks to be successful.

Richard Branson

#3. Too many people, right now are playing it small. If you want to be SUCCESSFUL, Live BIG, Think BIG, & make every day of your life COUNT!

Joel Brown

#4. Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

Billy Connolly

#5. The more optimistic you can be the more resilient you will be to whatever challenges life throws at you.

Auliq Ice

#6. To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

Napoleon Hill

#7. Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.

Hanna Rosin

#8. Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could be someone else's idea of hell; you might want to be an award-winning chef while your best friend hates cooking.

Nigel Cumberland

#9. If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

Jaggi Vasudev

#10. Want nothing but the best for your friends because when your friends are happy and successful, it's probably going to be easier for you to be happy.

Roxane Gay

#11. Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Virat Kohli

#12. I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.

Stephanie Allain

#13. Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult.

David Chang

#14. If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.

Barbara Sher

#15. You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.

Nick Woodman

#16. Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

Orison Swett Marden

#17. Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Eckhart Tolle

#18. Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

James Dyson

#19. If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

Brian Tracy

#20. Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

Ryan Giggs

#21. The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

Hugh Jackman

#22. There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

Joel Osteen

#23. I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.

Hank Stram

#24. Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful

Deepak Chopra

#25. You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Lou Holtz

#26. People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.

Clayton Christensen

#27. If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.

Rohit Shetty

#28. The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

Alan Page

#29. To be frank, my belief is if you just keep your head down and work, and you have the fortune to be successful, there really aren't moments that change you.

Mark Walter

#30. To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.

Duncan Bannatyne

#31. But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

Scott Hamilton

#32. If you are at all successful in your business, be prepared to never have another good day or bad day at work. There will be so many things - good and bad - happening on any given day that you will be on a roller coaster of highs and lows. If that excites you, then go for it.

Tom Szaky

#33. If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Will Rogers

#34. You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

Jay Weatherill

#35. That most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don't want it badder than you wanna party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep!

Eric Thomas

#36. The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be successful, and all these things create your tensions, your anxieties: how to be a celebrity?

Rajneesh

#37. Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Ball

#38. In the School of Life events, situations, and the people you have attracted to be part of your personal experiences are synchronized perfectly in order to teach you the lessons that need to be learned. They show you exactly what is needed to be successful in your Life.

Jacqueline Ripstein

#39. I think that a show that is as successful as 'The Golden Girls' is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If you don't feel proud to be part of a show that has that kind of track record, then shame on you, because that's a privilege.

Betty White

#40. My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

Jane Fonda

#41. You can never predict what's going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked 'Mad Men.'

Christina Hendricks

#42. Being in touch with your strengths and weaknesses, as well as what motivates you, will help you be more successful in your job.

Joanie Connell

#43. You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.

Ivan Glasenberg

#44. I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

Alyson Stoner

#45. To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.

Marya Mannes

#46. It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

Mike Tyson

#47. Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'

Jim Rohn

#48. Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.

Jerry Baker

#49. Ask yourself, are you an artist, or are you an art business? You can be both, but to be successful you need to think and act like a business owner.

Dave Conrey

#50. I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

Katherine Dunham

#51. I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

NeNe Leakes

#52. I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.

Tom Petty

#53. To be successful in life, there are many hurdles you have to get over. For me, the biggest hurdle to success has always been failure. But, growing up, my Dad was always positive ... that I'd never amount to anything.

Christopher Titus

#54. I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems.

Chris Cornell

#55. It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.

Dan Colen

#56. Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.

Ice Cube

#57. I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

Jesse Ventura

#58. I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

Ronnie Montrose

#59. You will be influential and powerful in the field of your gift and talent

Sunday Adelaja

#60. A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

James Scott Bell

#61. Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.

Brian Tracy

#62. I always say YCDA: you can do anything. If you want
to be a successful actor, you have to believe in yourself more than
anything else, and dont let anybody tell you that you cannot do it
because you can.

Michael Clarke Duncan

#63. You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.

Gloria Estefan

#64. Pressure is what you live for ... if you are going to be successful in life, you're going to have pressure.

Jack Nicklaus

#65. You will be successful if you are focused on your work

Sunday Adelaja

#66. I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

John Hodgman

#67. Becoming successful is a relentless pursuit. It's good that it's that way: When it does come, you learn to know how to appreciate it, and know how lucky you are to be doing something that you love so much.

Frankie Valli

#68. The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

Susan Egan

#69. Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.

Tim Ferriss

#70. It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible

Steve Miller

#71. My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.

Kim Elizabeth

#72. How others perceive us is entirely up to us. A man is what he makes of himself. He can be treated with respect and goodwill, or he can be crushed underfoot like a worm. If you want to be successful in the world of trade and commerce, then you must look successful.

Petra Durst-Benning

#73. If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

Tyler Perry

#74. Birthdays need to be celebrated. i think it is more important to celebrate a birthday than a successful exam or promotion or a victory. because to celebrate a birthday means to say to someone "thank you for being you".

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#75. Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

Raquel Welch

#76. Don't just wish; be passionate about what you wish to see happen. Rise up and make it happen.

Israelmore Ayivor

#77. To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

Ken Adam

#78. I want children, but I don't necessarily want to be married because I think marriage is very difficult. To have a successful marriage, you have to work hard and regard it as a job.

Monica Cruz

#79. The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.

Jamaica Kincaid

#80. Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

Dave Winfield

#81. I never had any friends beyond a certain superficial level. We hate to admit weaknesses. We were raised to want to get ahead, to be good and clever and successful. You're just ashamed to open up.

Lawrence Kudlow

#82. You could live it up and be successful, but it wouldn't mean anything without love and friends. I could go broke and still be happy because love is all I need.

Omarion

#83. You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.

Noel Gallagher

#84. I think when companies are struggling, they don't want to talk to the press. The guys who write business books aren't interested in it because nobody wants to learn what it's like to be a mess, you want to learn how to be successful. That's slanted the whole thing quite a bit.

Ben Horowitz

#85. If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles Dunstone

#86. I learned that you can be successful if you get people to help you become successful.

Gordon Bethune

#87. If you want to be successful faster, you must double your rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

Brian Tracy

#88. You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

Clive Anderson

#89. Though you work like mad to keep parts of you undiscovered, it is horrible to imagine that you will be completely successful. As the psychologist D.W. Winnicott wrote, It is a joy to be hidden, but a disaster not to be found.

Jennifer Michael Hecht

#90. Writing a successful novel is a great challenge, and you have to be a bit of a poet, a bit of a critic, a bit of a dramatist, a bit of a philosopher, a bit of a social scientist, to pull it off.

Anis Shivani

#91. Acting as if" you're already happy and successful will build a subconscious expectation you will BE happy and successful.This alone creates quantum leaps!

Jill Ammon-Wexler

#92. It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.

Donald Trump

#93. The fact that you wish to become extremely
successful must mean that you currently do not see yourself as such.
Therefore, you need to change. The question you should be asking is
what do you need to become?

Chris Murray

#94. To be successful is never convenient. The things you have to go through, it's never convenient.

Eric Thomas

#95. Believe you will be successful and you will.

Dale Carnegie

#96. Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Napoleon Hill

#97. People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

Dwight Howard

#98. I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

Candice Olson

#99. I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

Bill Rancic

#100. We'll all be better off the day we stop letting unhappy, unsuccessful people tell us how to be happy and successful. You already know the way ... follow it.

Steve Maraboli