Quotes About Been Successful

#1. I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

Jane Clayson

#2. Theology is an attempt to hack god's mind and look at the universe as he does; god's firewalls are so strong no attempt has ever been successful.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#3. No one has been successful in this 'race course'. One simply dies of exhaustion from running. 'We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) never take part in this race. 'We' would simply tell, 'Dear Man, I am not capable.

Dada Bhagwan

#4. If I've impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and brought to that individual a greater truth than that individual came into a relationship with me having, then I would say that I have been successful.

Harry Belafonte

#5. The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

Noam Chomsky

#6. And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.

Henry Kravis

#7. Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it,

Jamie Dimon

#8. Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.

Cameron Russell

#9. Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

Jay-Z

#10. For me to be in the entertainment business for as long as I have, for 15 years and been relevant, been successful, continue to do shows, sell out shows, traveling and everything ...

Ginuwine

#11. I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.

Chick Corea

#12. There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

Jonah Goldberg

#13. IT IS NOT COINCIDENCE THAT AT BARCELONA WE HAVE LOW-KEY LIFESTYLES AND WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL. WE KNOW WE ARE FOOTBALL PLAYERS AND NOT MOVIE STARS.

Lionel Messi

#14. I think anybody that's worked hard and has built something and has been successful can testify to how, you know, how wonderful that was, how wonderful it still is.

Kid Rock

#15. Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4%

Narendra Modi

#16. All my kids have worked in the family business. I've been successful at that. My family knows how to work. We all started working very young.

Alex Spanos

#17. I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

Mark Wahlberg

#18. I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.

Diplo

#19. 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

#20. Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

Joe Mansueto

#21. This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

Michael Moore

#22. Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.

Rachel Bloom

#23. Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.

H. David Burton

#24. I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

Linford Christie

#25. Amanda Hocking and Hugh Howey have been successful in their self-publishing ventures. But notice that Hocking would prefer to write and hand over the editing, promotion, and selling to a traditional publisher.

Ellen Datlow

#26. It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

Henry Bessemer

#27. I've been successful, but I haven't had any unwanted attention. To be honest, I've never invited or courted attention. I think if you act normal, then people will treat you normally. If you go around with a big entourage all the time, you're not staying true to yourself.

Bonnie Tyler

#28. And after all, they had been successful with the Jews and Gypsies and Bible Students.

Philip K. Dick

#29. Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.

Peter Drucker

#30. When I've been unsuccessful, I've been controlled. When I've been successful, I've been in control.

Katharine Hepburn

#31. I've been successful in different areas, but nothing brings a smile to my face more than my oldest son, Zaire, and my second son, Zion, saying the kind word of 'Dad.'

Dwyane Wade

#32. Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who are left behind.

Ellen J. Barrier

#33. I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#34. The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

#35. Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives.

Erika Slezak

#36. I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

Sean Penn

#37. The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp

Roger Daltrey

#38. Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.

Bianca Jagger

#39. I would like to say when I turn the project over to the label that I have been successful. And that's truly the way I feel. But, in addition to the self-pride in 'making' a good album, to be honest, I'd love to have a hit record.

Chely Wright

#40. I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful.

Francisco Goya

#41. I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.

Steve Carell

#42. I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

Chazz Palminteri

#43. I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

George Steinbrenner

#44. Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.

Jane Harman

#45. If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them.

Pedro Almodovar

#46. In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.

Vince Lombardi

#47. The conversation at dinner hadn't been successful either; it bore the marks of an old married couple who had very little left to say to each other.

Steve Martin

#48. Skrillex has been successful because he has a recognizable sound: You hear a dubstep song: even if it's not him, you think it's him.

Thomas Bangalter

#49. I try to be straight when I communicate with my audiences through a film. I'm not sure whether I have been successful. I don't watch my film once they're in theaters.

Lee Yoon-ki

#50. I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.

P. J. O'Rourke

#51. I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful.

Frank Frazetta

#52. But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

Patricia Clarkson

#53. One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.

Mark Spitz

#54. A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

Russell Baker

#55. Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

Euripides

#56. We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat has evolved. We do see these lone-wolf actors. We do see these encouragements for troubled individuals to pick up a gun and act out of this ideology.

Barack Obama

#57. Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Kary Mullis

#58. My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

#59. I don't think anybody has ever been able to live up to what they promised. I don't know a government that has ever been successful at that because once they get into power, things change and the world is controlled also by business now.

Hugh Masekela

#60. Peter would not have been successful if God had not helped him

Sunday Adelaja

#61. If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

Johnny Ramone

#62. I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

Eddie Murphy

#63. I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.

Irwin Winkler

#64. I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

Jim Parsons

#65. That night, once he was alone, he cried as well: not because of what he had done but because he hadn't been successful, because he had lived after all.

Hanya Yanagihara

#66. If I can lead a happy life, touch the lives of others in a positive way, win the respect of those that I care about - and make a few million along the way - then I have been successful.

Bill Rancic

#67. But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#68. This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States.

Michael Hayden

#69. That's who we are. That's partly why we've been successful. Spread it around and run our stuff.

Matt Hasselbeck

#70. If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why?

Jason Katims

#71. I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

Pat Summerall

#72. I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

Lee Iacocca

#73. I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Mel Gibson

#74. I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

David Rakoff

#75. You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.

Connie Nielsen

#76. It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.

Peter Hammill

#77. The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

James Thurber

#78. Every shuttle mission's been successful.

Christa McAuliffe

#79. If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong.

Steve Jobs

#80. I listen to Gov. Romney have to apologize because he has been successful.

Trey Gowdy

#81. Although we have been successful in our careers, they have not turned out quite as we expected. We both have changed positions several times - for all the right reasons - but there are no pension plans vesting on our behalf. Our retirement funds are growing only through our individual contributions.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#82. In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog.

Aphex Twin

#83. People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

Rumer Godden

#84. Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

Alec Baldwin

#85. We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

Judd Gregg

#86. Whenever you hear that someone else has been successful, rejoice. Always practice rejoicing for others-whether your friend or your enemy. If you cannot practice rejoicing, no matter how long you live, you will not be happy.

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

#87. We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of view of our customers do and seeking feedback through listening.

Richard Branson

#88. Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.

Al Pacino

#89. I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience,

John Toshack

#90. There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.

Harold Prince

#91. It's a weird thing because I've been single at the time when I've been successful. That's good and bad. Good, because you meet lots of people, bad because your privacy is infringed, so it's harder to develop things.

David Walliams

#92. My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#93. The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them.

Tony Fernandes

#94. If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.

Kallam Anji Reddy

#95. If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Lou Holtz

#96. From Adam's day until now men everywhere have tried to find their own way to meet God's standard of holiness. Has anyone been successful? No!

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#97. His struggle to mold me in his image had been successful after all. The old walrus in fact managed to instill in me a great and burning ambition; it had simply found expression in an unintended pursuit. He never understood that the Devils Thumb was the same as medical school, only different.

Jon Krakauer

#98. If I conduct myself publicly and privately in a way that is honorable, not just to the people of the district that I represent but to God, then I will feel like I have been successful.

Steve Largent

#99. A show that's been successful that been on a while, chances are it's going to stay that way. At least it's going to maintain some kind of standard. But when a show begins, there's no telling. Even after 13 shows or a whole year, you don't know what will become of it.

Gary Cole

#100. The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.

Robert Updegraff