Top 100 To Be A Success Quotes
#1. In order to be a success in life you have to be willing to take a chance. Its like putting a blindfold on and jumping off a cliff and hoping you'll land on something soft.
Ricky Star
#2. To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not staying resilient.
Meghan Wier
#3. For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinocerus.
Ethel Barrymore
#4. Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.
Benjamin Carson
#6. It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.
Marlene Dietrich
#7. In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.
Mark Cuban
#8. For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be a success. I don't. I just take the job because I love the character. Or I love the script. Maybe I love the director. But whatever I do, I never think about how it will do. That is not in my hands.
Kate Del Castillo
#10. All I can say is that I have arrived with the desire to be a success at Barca, that I am hungry to win titles.
Luis Suarez
#11. There is always a price to be paid to be a success if you are ready to pay then success is all yours.
Deepak Burfiwala
#13. To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.
Leonard Bernstein
#14. I wanted to be a success on the stage, the screen, or the radio. So I saved my money and when I had bus fare and $16.82 over, I told my mother, Clara, I was going to leave home. She was heartbroken, but she believed in me.
Carole Landis
#15. To be a success, dare to go beyond your fear and doubts.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level.
Jaggi Vasudev
#18. Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself.
Ralph Steiner
#19. You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health, and to enjoy a life of victory. It is not the Lord's desire that you live a life of defeat, poverty, and failure.
Joseph Prince
#20. The general idiocy of mankind is such that they can be swayed by words, and however mortifying, for the present you have to accept the fact as you accept it in the cinema that a film to be a success must have a happy ending.
W. Somerset Maugham
#21. Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn't true.
Sean Connery
#22. I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.
George Burns
#24. You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.
Christina Stead
#25. I always felt, right from a youngster, that it was my destiny to be a success. It sounds a little bit egotistical, but I felt I had a calling to do something.
John Caudwell
#26. To be a success, do what you love and love what you do.
Debasish Mridha
#27. The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.
John Engler
#28. To be a success, first dream, then visualize and then act.
Debasish Mridha
#29. To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
#30. Not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure ... of being creative individuals.
Norman Vincent Peale
#31. To be a success, all we need is a purpose oriented journey filled with love and persistence.
Debasish Mridha
#32. To be a success, water your dream with optimism and love.
Debasish Mridha
#33. God didn't call you to be a failure. He called you to be a success
Sunday Adelaja
#34. To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.
Kenny Marchant
#35. I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.
Darius Rucker
#36. Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
Donald Johanson
#37. To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations.
Debasish Mridha
#38. God created you to be a success, don't settle for less.
Sunday Adelaja
#39. You're an artist, Mel. You can't expect to be a success at the same time.' She was warming her white hands. I was not sure that I was an artist, but it was nice to be told.
Robert Aickman
#40. You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.
Lee Ann Womack
#41. Basketball is just something else to do, another facet of life. I'm going to be a success at whatever I choose because of my preparation. By the time the game starts, the outcome has been decided. I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared.
David Robinson
#42. I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.
Zack Wheat
#43. To be a success, you will have people walk out on you, walk over you, and walk away from you. If these things didn't happen, you wouldn't have such great people who walk with you, walk beside you, and walk into your life. Cherish the subtractions and you will be blessed with additions.
Robert J. Braathe
#44. I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.
David Cameron
#45. I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
#46. You know, you want to be a success. You want people to know who you are.
Elizabeth Hurley
#47. Don't complain because it is very difficult to be successful but rather be happy because there are many opportunities to be a success.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein
#49. For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#50. You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.
Winston Churchill
#51. To be a success, let go of the past and accept the beauty of change.
Debasish Mridha
#52. When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luc.
Roger Moore
#54. Failure gives you the experience and the wisdom to be a success in the future.
Debasish Mridha
#55. I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.
Edward Kennedy
#56. I felt all the time that for the film to be a success the texture of the scenery and the landscapes must fill me with definite memories and poetic associations
Andrei Tarkovsky
#57. If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.
George Clooney
#58. Man is meant to be a success. Each of us, he said, is unique and endowed with potentials unlike those of others. Success comes in finding your authentic self, the person you truly are, and becoming that person, tapping all of that untapped potential.
George Sheehan
#59. When the man is traveling with a man, he says, "Let's stay up late and work on this and get this to be better." When the man's traveling with the woman, for the sake of appearances he doesn't do the work with her. That's a lost opportunity for her to be a success.
Sheryl Sandberg
#61. God gave me a second chance. I am so very glad with what is going on with my career, but I want to be a success in my relationship with my children.
El DeBarge
#62. As a kid I was told to quit daydreaming! Don't you want to be a success like Joe, who always listens?
Now, I'm an adult and Joe is in jail and I'm writing books, go figure.
P.M. Russell
#63. I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success.
Missy Elliot
#64. For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.
Learned Hand
#65. For even in hell, I still have faith, To one day be free with my father at the gates, But make no mistakes, Ill show you what time takes, To be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate, I stand on my pivot, my life you cannot live it For the things that Ive seen have been too damn explicit.
Kid Cudi
#66. If you do something and it proves to be a success, then people go 'get him to do that type of thing again, but only slightly different'. Either you do that or you go 'No! I want to play a leprous, lesbian dwarf from Guatemala!' But those parts just aren't coming to me.
Jack Davenport
#67. I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
Dan Hill
#68. Choose to be great in your field of choice and work it out. Choose that your harvest will be abundant and strive for it. Choose to be a success and prepare for it. Choose to be a winner and fight for it. Success is a choice!
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. To be a success, plant the seeds of dreams. Then take care of those plants.
Debasish Mridha
#70. America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud
#71. Adversity could be an advantage in the future.
To be a success, take the advantage of adversity whenever possible.
Debasish Mridha
#72. To be a success, dream with open eyes, have faith in your defined purpose, and act with deep love.
Debasish Mridha
#73. To be a success, intensely focus on success oriented action not on roadblocks or obstacles.
Debasish Mridha
#74. What is failure? We can't possibly know what failure is. Most people think they do, but that's because they're judging how their lives should be and what they need it to be: a success. Who is to say what's a success and what's a failure? Do your best. Trust. Relax. Do your best. Enjoy yourself.
Gary Zukav
#75. I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.
Jaime Camil
#76. If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#77. It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.
Andre Benjamin
#78. Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.
Allan Houston
#79. The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
Naveen Jain
#80. You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it's either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won't be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.
Ben E. King
#81. Yes, I've worked hard; and yes, I may have achieved a certain level of success-but I'm very clear about the fact that none of it would be worth it without doing the things that keep me close to God.
David Archuleta
#83. Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.
Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable.
Rosen Topuzov
#84. Success is getting to a point where you'd be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
Tony Hsieh
#85. Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.
Sheryl Sandberg
#86. We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall
but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.
John Wyndham
#87. I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.
Mary Kay Ash
#88. I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.
Richard Linklater
#89. When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts ... But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen
#90. Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
Eckhart Tolle
#91. The success sometimes may come immediately, but we must be ready to wait patiently even for what may look like an infinite length of time. The student who sets out with such a spirit of perseverance will surely find success and realisation at last.
Swami Vivekananda
#92. Trade the dream of overnight success for slow, measured growth. It's hard, but you have to be patient. You have to grind it out. You have to do it for a long time before the right people notice.
Jason Fried
#93. My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.
Meryl Streep
#94. Bravery is not the trait of a fearless person, lest the reckless actions of a fool be considered brave. Bravery is the quality that allows us to overcome our fears and succeed.
Gerard De Marigny
#95. The question is, do you have deliberate plans for your life? Do you have intentions with you time? God planned that there should be a time for everything and for every season, meaning you can plan for everything and every season in your life! You may ask, 'Is that possible?" I say, "It's up to you!
Archibald Marwizi
#96. I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind ... It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind
Anonymous
#97. Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs
Chris Murray
#98. Be a success but never forget to be kind. Success has no meaning if your heart is empty of kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to experience true success. Don't just wish, DO! Don't just dream, BE! Let today be the day you create a plan and follow it.
Steve Maraboli
#100. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
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