Quotes About Being Successful

#1. Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.

Richard Simmons

#2. Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Fernando Pessoa

#3. Being successful and fulfilling your lifes purpose are not at all the same thing; You can reach all your personal goals, become a raving success by the worlds standard and still miss your purpose in this life.

Rick Warren

#4. Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

Dave Parker

#5. 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

#6. Snowboarding was everything that I knew. That's what I did and I poured everything I had into it. I thought that being successful and achieving my goals would go hand-in-hand with being happy.

Kelly Clark

#7. You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

Herb Kelleher

#8. Being successful is a choice and, therefore, being defeated is a decision.

Jim Stovall

#9. Without music I wouldn't have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from music and the notoriety that comes with being successful as an artist. So I see myself as an artist first, but I'm absolutely conscious of business.

Curtis Jackson

#10. I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.

Madonna Ciccone

#11. The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to give credit. Part of being successful is to give credit to people who you may not disagree with when they do well.

Frank Luntz

#12. Women will continue to sacrifice being liked for being successful.

Sheryl Sandberg

#13. I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

Marc Benioff

#14. The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.

Brad D. Smith

#15. 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

#16. If you don't get result-oriented with the kids, you can focus on the things in the process that are important to them being successful.

Nick Saban

#17. Neglecting passion blocks creative flow. When you're passionate, you're energized. Likewise, when you lack passion, your energy is low and unproductive. Energy is everything when it comes to being successful.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#18. To act - that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success.

Fernando Pessoa

#19. Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

Toi Derricotte

#20. The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Leontyne Price

#21. Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

Marlon Wayans

#22. The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that's when it works.

Oprah Winfrey

#23. Discipline is the whole key to being successful. We all get 24 hours each day. That's the only fair thing; it's the only thing that's equal. What we do with those 24 hours is up to us.

Sam Huff

#24. It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.

Michael Josephson

#25. The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

Jordan Belfort

#26. In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.

John Corbett

#27. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.

Steve Jobs

#28. Entrepreneurship is an addiction to being successful, not a job or career. You have to feed the addiction and recharge from it or you'll burn out.

Ryan Blair

#29. Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.

Gabe Newell

#30. We all dream of being successful. To be able to inspire a nation is unbelievable.

Andre Berto

#31. I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.

Michael Feldman

#32. I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.

Nadine Velazquez

#33. I'll never worry about not being successful. I'll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.

Bo Jackson

#34. I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

Chris Martin

#35. The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#36. I've got to work really hard and I know exactly what I've achieved because I know how hard I've worked, and I make sure to work as hard as I absolutely possibly can, because I know that's the only shot I have at being successful.

Ben Affleck

#37. For me I'm a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it's not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it's about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.

Christian Siriano

#38. I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

Allison Williams

#39. Successful people play the part of being successful consistently in all that they do.

Lorii Myers

#40. The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

Bruce Lee

#41. Security has come from being successful.

Minnie Driver

#42. Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Robert Baden-Powell

#43. Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.

Alan Shearer

#44. 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

#45. I know that trolls are fundamentally sad people; I know that I've already defeated them in every substantive arena - by being smart, by being happy, by being successful, by being listened to, by being loved.

Lindy West

#46. I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.

Tessanne Chin

#47. Being successful makes you more vulnerable to mistakes

Thabiso Monkoe

#48. There's so many great things that come with being successful. The one thing that is weird is trying to figure out whose intentions are in the right place, and who is really on your team.

Donald Faison

#49. I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

Jimmy Carr

#50. being successful at anything is simple. Find someone who is successful in what you are pursuing, find out the price they paid to get there, and then pay that price.

Michael R. Van Vlymen

#51. The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.

Myles Munroe

#52. Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

Joshua Lederberg

#53. 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

#54. Being successful means good results for the national team at first in the regional competitions like the Asian Cup and keeping in mind to go for Gold at a World Cup in the future.

Berti Vogts

#55. My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

Channing Tatum

#56. Now the big danger is to avoid doing anything, unless you have a surety, unless you have an assurance that you'll be successful. It's not about being successful. It's about being faithful. The good is worth doing, because it's good. And who knows what the results will be?

Ray McGovern

#57. I never resented anybody for being successful.

Bill Hader

#58. If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?

Matt Damon

#59. I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV.

Al Roker

#60. Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.

Gary Hamel

#61. I think that the more success you have as an actor, I think, the greatest advantage of being successful as an actor or being in this business is that you have the chance to pick and choose, or you have people coming to you with a much more different variety of roles.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#62. Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.

Jenny Agutter

#63. It's kind of cool that we've quietly been selling a million albums. We knew the album wasn't going to debut at No. 1. I'm stoked to see us being successful again.

Jacoby Shaddix

#64. The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Rob Lowe

#65. A man who is fed up with being successful all the time must definitely try failure to feel better!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#66. DON'T FEAR FAILURE. Fear being successful at things that don't matter

Tony Dungy

#67. Uhhhhh. Without answering,I turned and hurried toward the back of the room, eaving around bodies on yoga mats in the center of the polished wood floor, thinking unkind thoughts about well-meaning old people who wanted to push me into being successful.

Jennifer Echols

#68. In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

John Locke

#69. There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

Clint Eastwood

#70. The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

Michael Eisner

#71. Being successful is kind of dull.

Nolan Bushnell

#72. One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

Dustin Hoffman

#73. The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.

Thomas Sankara

#74. I know there's a difference between being successful and feeling successful. And if you ask me if I feel successful, the honest answer is 'not yet.'

Simon Sinek

#75. Being successful is the only way to keep doubters' and haters' mouths shut.

Mohith Agadi

#76. Commitment to ourselves, our families, and our business is paramount to being successful. Human should be committed to rolling out great products, services and initiatives that impact those personal and professionals encounters which cross our path.

Sameh Elsayed

#77. The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

Paul Tudor Jones

#78. A great challenge for parents is how to prepare themselves for being successful in advising children.

Eraldo Banovac

#79. It's unfortunate, and we're disappointed the FDA did not grant the stay, ... But because there are no new scientific findings other than what the poultry groups submitted already, the likelihood of the company being successful in a further legal action is next to nil.

Bob Walker

#80. How to advise parents for being successful in raising children still
remains an important unsolved problem.

Eraldo Banovac

#81. The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful.

Nick Saban

#82. Whether you are watching a video or playing a game, whether you are doing work or fielding an unwanted phone call, whether you are being successful or smarting from failure - in the ordinary context of daily living, you show the power and viability of Christian faith.

Tedd Tripp

#83. The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

Elton John

#84. By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.

Glenn Miller

#85. But although quality, price, and advertising contribute to products and ideas being successful, they don't explain the whole story.

Jonah Berger

#86. Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!

Randy Pausch

#87. Enhanced interrogation gleaned information that saved American lives and - I was informed - prevented incoming terrorist attacks on this country from being successful.

Mike Pence

#88. I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Zig Ziglar

#89. First of all, from a spiritual perspective, I don't think anyone needs to be apologetic about being successful or having money. The more successful you are, the more job opportunities you create for other people.

Shilpa Shetty

#90. Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

Gene Hackman

#91. Journalists were among those who thought that way. Clarke Beach, for example, in a September 6 article for the local newspaper, the Star-Bulletin, wrote, "A Japanese attack on Hawaii is regarded as the most unlikely thing in the world, with one chance in a million of being successful.

Donald Stratton

#92. Sometimes being successful means pissing people off

Philip Loyd

#93. I'm not going to apologize for being successful.

Mitt Romney

#94. I like being successful. Giving back is just a part of that.

Peter Loftin

#95. In the beginning, I didn't have to love them, my acts. It was mostly about being successful, getting a trophy, and making some money. Now if I don't love the idea of it, I don't work on it.

Michael Cohl

#96. There will be difficulties to face on the way to being successful. You can weather the storms.

Denise Austin

#97. To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

Chester Bennington

#98. Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.

Susan Wojcicki

#99. If you fully believe you will be successful and can visualize yourself being successful, you will succeed

Tom Platz

#100. Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being realand striving to be successful. Get the difference?

Thomas Leonard