Top 100 Quotes About Successful
#1. 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
#2. Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.
David S. Rose
#3. To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage.
Xi Jinping
#4. The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.
Fazlur Rahman
#5. The idea itself is the ten percent inspiration; the hammering it into a viable, successful, memorable story is the ninety percent perspiration that follows.
Chris Claremont
#6. Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.
Tabatha Coffey
#7. The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate tries to run as something they aren't simply because the strategy dictates it.
Chuck Todd
#8. I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.
Steven Michael Quezada
#9. I am as successful as I make up my mind to be
Louise Hay
#10. I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.
Warren Moon
#11. I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.
Ji-Hae Park
#12. The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.
Noam Chomsky
#13. The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.
Frank Leahy
#14. It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian McEwan
#15. 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
#16. Successful people are action oriented and they have bigger libraries than TV's
Jim Rohn
#17. All the successful people I knew in life had high self-esteem and all the losers had low self-esteem.
Bill Bartmann
#18. You are happy and kind; therefore, you are successful.
A.D. Posey
#19. No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.
Orison Swett Marden
#20. Being a team player will help you climb the ladder of success. Furthermore, a successful team player can rise to the level of team leader in the future.
Vishwas Chavan
#21. Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they're doing. There is a craft.
Meryl Streep
#22. We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.
Dave Ramsey
#23. the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.
Peter Thiel
#24. Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
Carroll Quigley
#25. All depends on how determined we are to be successful.
Robert Kiyosaki
#26. I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.
Ratan Tata
#27. Perhaps," observes James McPherson, "McClellan's career had been too successful. He had never known . . . the despair of defeat or the humiliation of failure. He had never learned the lessons of adversity and humility." Lincoln had clearly learned those lessons.
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#28. One rule is this: that if the risk of a transaction is very great it should not be considered at all, no matter what profit it offers if it is successful.
Rex Stout
#29. We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.
Gerry Spence
#30. I've been extremely lucky in that I've been a very successful model for a long time. So now I'm an actress and a mother. I'm a theatre rat, which I always wanted to be - I've wanted to act since I was 14 - and I never get bored, ever, and I have four beautiful children. I am, in fact, so darn lucky.
Jerry Hall
#31. The 'economy' became a god such as never before, and a happy, successful society was one that could please this god - sometimes by sacrificing beautiful things - to keep the deity from getting angry and harming the people by withdrawing favours.
Michael Leunig
#32. Don't look so worried. Most successful missions are just a series of barely averted disasters.
Sabaa Tahir
#33. If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.
Bob Newhart
#34. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once.
Richard Branson
#35. My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
Barbara Corcoran
#37. I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years.
Stephen J. Cannell
#38. The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.
Martin Filler
#39. You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe.
Zooey Deschanel
#41. Faithfulness is God's standard! As His servants we are not required to be perfect or successful - simply faithful.
Linda Dillow
#42. If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value
Myles Munroe
#43. The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.
Peter Lowe
#44. Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.
Anthony Venn-Brown
#45. The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
L. Neil Smith
#46. What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly.
Eric Ries
#47. The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.
David Pogue
#48. For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.
Greg Gorman
#49. Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
Bertrand Russell
#50. Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.
Guy Kawasaki
#51. All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.
Gary North
#52. I think there's a huge lack of political artists in America, and I think it really speaks to our consumeristic culture and how people are driven to be financially successful here. It's such a shame that we don't have people who are more inspired than that.
Corin Tucker
#53. Life is a choice ... it's a choice to be successful.
Josh Thomson
#54. Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
Vita Sackville-West
#55. The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.
John Foster Dulles
#57. I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
Neil Armstrong
#58. There has always been a display of wealth and always will be, until the depression comes, which it always does. And let me tell you, a display is a good thing. It shows people that you can be successful. It can show you a way of life.
Donald Trump
#59. I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.
Miriam Toews
#60. The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.
Harry S. Truman
#61. You don't create or write to be successful; you don't create or paint to be famous or to increase your wealth. You do all of these things because your soul is calling you to do them.
Kelly Martin
#62. Each of us can improve our internal person and develop the character required for a successful life
Sunday Adelaja
#63. The successful cannot be unhappy
it was a contradiction in terms.
Barry Unsworth
#64. The most difficult part in executing a successful breakout is handling pressure from the opposition and completing a good first pass.
Ryan Walter
#65. I felt a sense of pride swell in me. Not for myself but for these two women. They were everything I wanted to be someday - successful, happy, dedicated to their town and its people, and most importantly they knew who they were.
Jana Deleon
#66. If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#67. I'm not ashamed of being successful. You know, they criticized Romney for being ashamed of it. I think we've got to inspire our kids that we shouldn't be ashamed to be successful.
John Catsimatidis
#68. The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.
Thomas Sowell
#69. No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.
Fareed Zakaria
#70. Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time!
John C. Maxwell
#71. The truly successful teacher is the one you will never need again.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#72. It would be wrong to suggest that Scotland could not be another such successful, independent country.
David Cameron
#73. The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.
Ice-T
#74. The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder ... Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.
Jeffrey Sachs
#75. Very, very good Pavlov, all your dogs have barked when you rang the bell. Your test was successful.
Triple H
#76. Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.
Niall Horan
#77. To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.
George Soros
#78. It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise at once to comfort and respectability ... I never saw a man who put Christ first in his life that wasn't successful.
Dwight L. Moody
#79. helps you to habitually put God into every picture, seasoning your feelings and thoughts, lifting you up when disappointed, and humbling you when successful.
Timothy J. Keller
#80. I have done everything that I wanted to do, and I feel very blessed that I have been very successful on every area. So it's very exciting. There is nothing else to do.
Paris Hilton
#81. It is also of grave importance that society realize that children who are brought up in a single parent household can and do grow up loved, happy and successful.
Anonymous
#82. To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.
Laura Lang
#83. I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.
Jane Pauley
#84. They sought out rap music to attack, but you don't hear that anymore because it made too much money. They use Che Guevara to sell soft drinks. If something comes out that is radical and it's successful, then it's no longer radical. It's co-opted.
John Landis
#85. People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?
Mike Tyson
#86. We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.
Anna Eshoo
#87. A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.
Sydney J. Harris
#88. To be profitable, practice diligence.
To be successful, practice excellence.
To be influential, practice intelligence.
To be honorable, practice prudence.
To be blissful, practice kindness.
To be joyful, practice goodness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#89. The most successful men are those who never admit the validity of other people's opinions, who even deny their existence.
Aldous Huxley
#90. I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make your record successful.
Patrick Wolf
#91. Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!
Bernie Sanders
#92. I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.
Maria Bartiromo
#93. There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.
William J. Clinton
#94. Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.
Blair Underwood
#95. The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.
Matthew Bourne
#96. I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
Tiger Woods
#97. Having a more experienced and successful counselor guiding someone in a chosen profession is wise decision and good career move.
Jose A. Aviles
#98. If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.
Naveen Jain
#99. No man has a good enough memory
to make a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
#100. To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.
Norm Sloan
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