Top 100 Best Successful Quotes
#1. If things aren't as successful as you thought they would be, sometimes that's not the worst thing that can happen. Sometimes that can be the best thing to push you in another direction that you were supposed to go in. Or to have an experience that you were supposed to have to grow.
Erin Davie
#2. I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.
Lilly Singh
#3. The secret to success is doing the best that you can do. Forget about whether you might win or lose. By working hard and practicing the skills that you need to perform, the results will take care of themselves. Being successful is about doing your best.
Barbara Cochran
#4. The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.
James C. Collins
#5. To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#6. Similarly, loving spouses must repeatedly confront each other if the marriage relationship is to serve the function of promoting the spiritual growth of the partners. No marriage can be judged truly successful unless husband and wife are each other's best critics.
M. Scott Peck
#7. It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends'.I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#8. Before building any relationship, think on how your partner could be the best companion to you in achieving your life's earnest goals
Rajasaraswathii
#9. We heads of state really prefer to have some sort of an agenda before we sit down at the high-stakes table, you know. All bad novelists notwithstanding, surprise and improvisation are not the best basis for successful diplomacy!
David Weber
#10. Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.
Bonnie Friedman
#11. Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.
Bob Cousy
#12. This is certainly one of the best ways to ensure failure. Make excuses, don't take action!
Abhishek Ratna
#13. For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.
Charles Spurgeon
#14. Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.
Francis Ford Coppola
#15. If Jurgen Klinsmann thinks that the best way for his team to be successful is if his young players go to Europe, there is nobody in the world who can argue with that. That is his opinion, whether you agree with it or not.
Tim Howard
#16. To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.
Anthony Hitt
#17. The best short stories and the most successful jokes have a lot in common. Each form relies on suggestion and economy. Characters have to be drawn in a few deft strokes. There's generally a setup, a reveal, a reversal, and a release.
Geraldine Brooks
#18. The most successful people in life have the best information
David Wolfe
#19. Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing,
Stephen Elop
#20. Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.
Steven Rattner
#21. Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.
Randy Johnson
#22. The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.
Tony Blair
#23. The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.
Tariq Ramadan
#24. I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!
Cat Cora
#25. Everything I had ever learned about air fighting taught me that the man who is aggressive, who pushes a fight, is the pilot who is successful in combat and who has the best opportunity for surviving battle and coming home.
Robert S. Johnson
#26. The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation.
Steve Maraboli
#27. I think there are shows that are long-running and successful, where some or all of the cast members hate each other, but I think it's a lot easier to have an environment where everyone feels secure and supported to do the best work possible.
Jesse Metcalfe
#28. Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
E.W. Howe
#29. The predominant quality of successful people is optimism ... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
Brian Tracy
#30. It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.
Vince Gilligan
#31. Sometimes the worst brings out the best in you, Sometimes the lowest tide ushers in the biggest change, Sometimes the gravest wounds translate into deepest wisdom, Sometimes the nadir leads you to the zenith - All you need to do is - To Hold On
Manprit Kaur
#32. I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain kids is to make them laugh.
Jeff Kinney
#33. May you always be each other's best friend,
May your mutual love continue to be so
May your successful marriage continue to thrive
May love flourish, prosper, bloom and grow
John Walter Bratton
#34. I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.
Zig Ziglar
#35. The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin
#36. The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.
Alexander Elder
#37. I guess the best thing about having a successful record like this is, like, I know I'm at least good for another five years, like, before everyone starts to like - all the haters start to come out again. And that's really what it is.
Mark Ronson
#38. For many men, the fundamental assumption is that they can have both a successful professional life and a fulfilling personal life. For many women, the assumption is that trying to do both is difficult at best and impossible at worst.
Sheryl Sandberg
#39. I would assume everybody thinks they are a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Joe Flacco
#40. To be successful in the family the father must have the welfare of each family member at heart and his decisions and plans must be based upon what is best for them.
Helen Andelin
#41. We talk to a team, they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will go on to be successful.
Sam Altman
#42. Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.
Thomas Jefferson
#43. A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.
Raquel Cassidy
#44. The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
Gene Fowler
#45. It's not that difficult you see,
To be all that you can be;
For the true secret to success,
Is simply this ...
ALWAYS do your best.
Danielle Pierre
#46. I'm going to make decisions that I think are best for me and my family. So, when I make these decisions, of course I'm going to ask people for advice, but at the end of the day, Brandon Jennings makes the decisions. And I feel like the decisions that I've made so far have been successful.
Brandon Jennings
#47. What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
Benjamin Franklin Fairless
#48. The best colleges admit only successful students, offering no evidence the college itself forged the students' late success.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#49. The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.
Peter Thiel
#50. People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.
Kevin Kline
#51. Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects
Rene Descartes
#52. Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.
Malcolm X
#53. Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.
Robert Kiyosaki
#54. Selling is a form of serving the needs of others.
Troy Clark
#55. I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
Ben Stein
#56. In my view the successful companies of the future will be those that integrate business and employees' personal values. The best people want to do work that contributes to society with a company whose values they share, where their actions count and their views matter.
Jeroen Van Der Veer
#57. The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.
Clayton Christensen
#58. Overall, because branding is about creating and sustaining trust it means delivering on promises. The best and most successful brands are completely coherent. Every aspect of what they do and what they are reinforces everything else.
Wally Olins
#59. To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.
Ray Dalio
#60. The best compliment I can give Blake is just to say that if I hadn't inherited him as the quarterback, he would have been a kid I would have recruited. I think he has all the tools to be very successful in our system.
Terry Hoeppner
#61. The reason I became such a successful athlete was my mind was saying that no matter who you put up against me, I am better, I am the best.
Michael Jordan
#62. I believe the people who are most successful are those committed to bringing out the best in other people through awakening & empowerment.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#63. Behind every successful woman are people who bring out the best in her, encourage her and cheer her on!
Tanya Masse
#64. I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, 'If they don't buy the fish on the first toss, throw it back in the wagon and go to the second house.' Which is like an old Jewish fishmongers' story about how you become a successful fish monger.
Lin Shaye
#65. In business, we often say that your best customers are the customers you have now. In other words, your most successful sales leads come from the selling you've already done.
Keith Ferrazzi
#66. I learn from everyone by observing traits that makes them successful and traits that bring them down, and try to incorporate only the best traits into my professional career.
Olivia Stuck
#67. Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
Alan Ball
#68. In Sardinia one summer my best friend Marisa Berenson and I ironed each other's hair. We used a hot laundry iron and took turns putting our hair on the ironing board, literally ironing it. That's a recipe for straightening that may be highly successful, but is definitely not recommended.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#69. Spend more time with people who bring out the best in you.
Abhishek Ratna
#70. As a result, your subconscious mind will do its best to keep you from a successful marriage, because you have a disagreement between your consciousness and sub consciousness
Sunday Adelaja
#71. The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.
Sun Tzu
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.
Alex Trebek
#76. You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.
Jessica Alba
#77. Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.
Cameron Mackintosh
#78. When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.
Bob Toski
#79. The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.
Kenneth Appel
#80. The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.
Peter Thiel
#81. The most successful endeavors in the digital age were those run by leaders who fostered collaboration while also providing a clear vision. Too often these are seen as conflicting traits: a leader is either very inclusive or a passionate visionary. But the best leaders could be both. Robert
Walter Isaacson
#83. Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.
Mel Carnahan
#84. Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#85. A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?
Jay Samit
#86. In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.
Jason Alexander
#87. The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
Orson Welles
#88. 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
#89. The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.
Fred Wilson
#90. I'm happily married to Peter senior; we're best friends as well as lovers, which is probably the best recipe for a successful relationship. We live in a lovely part of England.
Carole Mortimer
#91. I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can.
Kate Del Castillo
#92. The best people to listen to are those who have already been successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish.
Brian Koslow
#93. What stands between soulful, spiritual, and successful you is the wall of self assumed and society induced fears. Kill the fear with the fountain of love that is there within you. Being love is the best way to overcome fear.
Vishwas Chavan
#94. Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.
Jakob Nielsen
#95. The best version of comedy is when you can get to an issue where, at some point, you're not firmly on one side or the other, and you can see both sides. The more we become about the issues, the more successful we are.
W. Kamau Bell
#96. Choose your thoughts and beliefs wisely.
Be your own best friend, and not your enemy.
Maddy Malhotra
#97. To be successful is to be helpful, caring, and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better. The best thing you have to give is yourself. If
John C. Maxwell
#98. People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.
Devendra Banhart
#99. An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
Adolf Galland
#100. People who understand the power law will hesitate more than others when it comes to founding a new venture: they know how tremendously successful they could become by joining the very best company while it's growing fast.
Peter Thiel
