Behind Every Successful Person Quotes

#1. Behind every successful person there is an out of control imagination.

Auliq Ice

#2. Do You want to be Surrounded by Great People? There is an Appreciative Person, behind every Successful Person. Be that Person.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#3. Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

Lou Holtz

#4. Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.

Joe Penna

#5. A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

Chuck Klosterman

#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. You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

Ray Kurzweil

#9. Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Malraux

#10. In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.

Tom Gross

#11. My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.

Donald Trump

#12. Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#13. I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.

Hanya Yanagihara

#14. A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

Steve Harvey

#15. The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.

Sun Tzu

#16. Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Success is not an adjective for a life. A person can only be successful at part of something not in all something.

Todd Stocker

#18. A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#19. A highly successful person is very focused on what they want to be doing. The weekend and the week look very similar: They are focused on creating the life they want.

Penelope Trunk

#20. Most successful people chose the path and did the things in their own way, against all the rules and guidelines, but we are everyday told to follow the rules to be a successful person.

M.F. Moonzajer

#21. A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

Kemmons Wilson

#22. My great love is the stage because I do feel like it's the place where, if you're lucky and everything is firing in the right way, you have the greatest shot at being successful. I don't mean by getting great reviews, but I mean by finding the core fo the person that you're playing.

Sarah Paulson

#23. Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.

Kenya Hara

#24. It is better to be a failed happy person than to be a successful underachiever.

Laksh Kishore

#25. We need to know ourselves better so that we can realize what we really want in our life. I think that the first condition for a person to be in a successful relationship is to be happy with the person he or she is, in other words to love themselves.

Tarkan

#26. I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.

Kristen Stewart

#27. The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Thomas A. Edison

#28. It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the person you couldn't live without.

Elizabeth Palmer

#29. I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free.

Riccardo Tisci

#30. If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.

Earl Nightingale

#31. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

#32. Every person falls down at some point. Successful people choose to get back up!

Dave Ramsey

#33. Only people who want to be somewhere, somebody, have to suffer the sadness of failure. But a person who never wants to be anybody, never wants to be anywhere else, cannot suffer the sadness of failure - he is always successful, just like me.

Rajneesh

#34. I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

Rosanne Cash

#35. No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

Ann Landers

#36. We can't all succeed following the same path as successful men followed. Each person has it's own destiny. You might get stuck at any stage if it's not your way but you'll fly away if it's yours. Follow your mind and take serious anything you do.

Amen Muffler

#37. Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

Eric Hoffer

#38. You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.

Konosuke Matsushita

#39. No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.

Emma Caulfield

#40. With or without realizing it, every successful person has created behaviors - systems for greeting people, networking, and making telephone calls to aid them in their pursuits. By observing the traits of successful people, you can create your own system for success.

Ryan Blair

#41. I have six different careers, each one of which I was successful in. I was a successful person in life because I helped everybody, because I did not do anything wrong.

Ferdie Pacheco

#42. I just want to be who I am. I think all women go through the belief that they need to be superwoman - that to be successful in any way, and I don't necessarily mean in business or anything, but just to be a successful person, you have to be superwoman.

Cindy McCain

#43. Every successful person I know starts before they feel ready.

Marie Forleo

#44. The point is this: the successful person in any field takes time out to confer with himself or herself. Leaders use solitude to put the pieces of a problem together, to work out solutions, to plan, and, in one phrase, to do their superthinking.

David J. Schwartz

#45. Persistence, perseverance, and continuous improvement are the ingredients for forming a successful person.

Debasish Mridha

#46. I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.

James L. Brooks

#47. One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Taylor Swift

#48. Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing.

Craig Venter

#49. To be successful, you only need one person to believe!

Eric Thomas

#50. Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

Thomas Szasz

#51. Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds.

Robert Kiyosaki

#52. You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

Dan Fogelberg

#53. The more educated and financially successful, the less religious a person is likely to be.

Darrel Ray

#54. Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them ... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.

Sean Covey

#55. Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person's success is based on developing relationships, then they have to continually find new ways of getting it done

Mike Krzyzewski

#56. Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Fannie Flagg

#57. It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

Mark Twain

#58. There is no mystery about successful business ... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

Charles William Eliot

#59. I don't think you are truly successful unless you are a happy person and are happy with your life. I know many people who are professionally successful but miserable.

Ivanka Trump

#60. Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.

Rob Lowe

#61. You have to have a product or service that offers customers a unique advantage over the competition. Some people think it has to be price, but only one person can have the lowest price, and the person with the lowest price isn't necessarily the most successful.

Cameron Johnson

#62. Every turning point in a person's life isn't reached by luck, they choose to be successful, they know what it takes to be there, they can do what is expected of them to do, they do not show trepidation about the requirements needed to be on top

Michael Bassey Johnson

#63. When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

Magic Johnson

#64. It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.

James Sinegal

#65. If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to choose between being successful and being a philanthropist.

Monique Coleman

#66. If you are a "now-person", you reduce the time rate during which your success story is to be published; if you delay a bit, you are either prolonging the date of publishing or you are deleting it at all cost! Be a "now-person" and do it now!

Israelmore Ayivor

#67. Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.

Mario Batali

#68. A successful person will never use the word 'no', 'I cannot' or 'it is impossible

Sunday Adelaja

#69. If a society has no moral foundations then success is a threat. Every successful person thinks everyone else is a failure, and this is the proof of failure. Conquering the world and dying empty-handed on foreign shores is a paradox of such success.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#70. Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

Francis Collins

#71. A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.
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John C. Maxwell

#72. A successful person is just a novice who started and kept on going.

Maddy Malhotra

#73. Persistent work always brings a person successful results

Sunday Adelaja

#74. The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do,

Stephen R. Covey

#75. I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?

Colin Greenwood

#76. A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

Mark Nepo

#77. Five years after I started CD Baby, when it was a big success, the media said I had revolutionized the music business. But 'revolution' is a term that people use only when you're successful. Before that, you're just a quirky person who does things differently.

Derek Sivers

#78. The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

John C. Maxwell

#79. Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

David Brooks

#80. When you are discussing a successful coach," sports psychologist Bruce Ogilvie once said, not of Ramsay but of the entire profession, "you are not necessarily drawing the profile of an entirely healthy person.

David Halberstam

#81. Being a successful and wealthy man doesn't mean that you have to forget about the place where you were brought up and the people who struggleds to make you a better person

Diyar Harraz

#82. Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat

Eldridge Cleaver

#83. Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

#84. When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

Chris Evert

#85. Mentorship is simply learning from the mistakes and mastery of a successful person in his/her field.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#86. There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.

Mallory Ortberg

#87. Sometimes its better to take the stairs because till the time the other person opens the door of the elevator, you reach your destination.

Ameya Agrawal

#88. A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.

Rick Warren

#89. There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

Ernesto Sirolli

#90. The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.

Denis Waitley

#91. To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key.

Jim Rohn

#92. I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

Scott Turow

#93. The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do more but feel less.'

Alexander Lowen

#94. The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

S. Truett Cathy

#95. Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#96. Well, isn't every successful person in every family the bankbook?

Louie Anderson

#97. You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.

Erica Albright

#98. When I was growing up I didn't know what it meant to be a happy, successful grown-up gay person, and now I do. I feel like I'm setting an example for people everywhere.

Ross Mathews

#99. Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Seth Godin

#100. Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

Brandon Sanderson