Top 100 To Become Successful Quotes
#1. To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.
Napoleon Hill
#2. The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.
Hugh Jackman
#3. I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.
William Jackson
#4. I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.
NeNe Leakes
#5. To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.
Earl Nightingale
#6. Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Zig Ziglar
#7. What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
Colin Powell
#8. To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful
Robin Sharma
#9. If you want to become successful employer tomorrow, work hard on learning and practicing few simple disciplines and positive thoughts as an employee today.
Ashish Patel
#10. My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.
Mason Cooley
#11. You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
Lady Gaga
#12. Study Successful People & Businesses, then do what they did to become successful while making slight modifications to fit your life style, your values, your business model & your goals.
Clay Clark
#13. I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true.
Yoko Ono
#14. Don't be (dis.grun.tled), disgruntled that someone else is more successful than you are. Let their success motivate you to become successful.
Jon Jones
#15. Once we make the decision to become successful, we must be very careful about associations.
Chrys-Ann Ambrose
#16. If you want to catch a cold, hang out with sick people. If you want to lose, associate with losers. But if you want to become successful, go out of your way to associate with successful people.
Thomas J. Stanley
#17. To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!
Lillian Cauldwell
#18. I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.
Jennifer Aniston
#19. Failure fear people who pursue success, cause their bravery to become successful is far more than failure to understand.
Festus Adeoye
#20. Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#21. People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Harvey MacKay
#22. Life gives everybody equal chance to become successful and prosperous.
Sunday Adelaja
#23. Bill collectors and harassing phone calls is enough to motivate some people to become successful. Maybe the pain is not great enough yet for you to act. Are you going to continue to feel sorry for yourself? On the other hand, are you ready to do what you need to do to change your situation?
Jon Jones
#24. The ebb and flow as an artist is a bizarre experience, for sure. I was lucky enough to become successful pretty young - in late '79, 1980 - with a body of work that got recognized and became an archetype.
Robert Longo
#25. Anyone can get their hands on a fortune but to become successful one must work intelligent and hard.- EMW
Erik Martin Willen
#26. Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?
R. Buckminster Fuller
#27. We all naturally want to become successful ... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.
Apolo Ohno
#28. Become successful, not just because you want to but because you have to!
What's the point in living a mediocre life, if the human race can learn to become successful?
SuccessCoach Nilesh
#29. You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.
Jon Jones
#30. If you want to become successful, then first become the person who can be successful.
SuccessCoach Nilesh
#31. To bear a child or to get married is not the primary goal for a lady who wants to become successful in life
Sunday Adelaja
#32. It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.
Maya Angelou
#33. Every day I get letters from people thanking me for helping them to become successful, whether because of their personal growth or because of economic rewards. A few of my former students have even become millionaires.
Frederick Lenz
#34. To become successful you will have to get mad about your current situation. After you get mad, get motivated to do something about it.
Jon Jones
#35. I now have 10-year-olds asking me about how to become successful, how to become a business owner, which is crazy - at 10 I was trying to figure out which Barbie I wanted.
Michelle Phan
#36. To become successful, do the little extra things that ordinary people refuse to do. The little extra hard work, little extra practice, little extra studying and the little extra positive attitude.
Archibald Marwizi
#37. I didn't think I was going to change the world for women; I just did what I did. My big thing was that I didn't change who and what I was to become successful. I will not be told what to do; I'm a real independent girl.
Suzi Quatro
#38. If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value
Myles Munroe
#40. Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
Billy Connolly
#41. One dream is never enough, and your dream can be molded and finessed along the way to become relevant and successful.
Sophia Amoruso
#42. A successful Christian life will not be based on how much work we have done, but rather, on how close to the Lord we have become and how obedient we have been.
Rick Joyner
#43. Imagine Michael Jackson trying to play basketball or Michael Jordan trying to become a musician. They might not have been so successful if they would have chosen to do so. Regardless
Harshajyoti Das
#44. Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?
Ryan Giggs
#45. My #1 goal is to become a successful singer and share my gift with the world.
Leah LaBelle
#46. The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.
David Coverdale
#47. If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.
Confucius
#48. Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.
Albert Einstein
#49. For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#50. Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Wayne W. Dyer
#51. You become successful, the way I see it, only if you're good enough to deliver what the public enjoys. If you're not, you won't have any audience; so the performer really has more to do with his success than the public does.
Johnny Carson
#52. I think one thing that is extremely important is to connect with people in order to be successful and bring the people in so that they become your partners.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#53. 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
#54. It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.
Hillman Curtis
#55. Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.
Niall Ferguson
#56. Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.
Raquel Welch
#57. When our executive producer, Julie Plec, told me I was going to become a hybrid I got really excited. Because there's a lot of responsibility that comes with that, especially in our world of 'The Vampire Diaries' where Tyler is the first successful hybrid that's made.
Michael Trevino
#58. I learned that you can be successful if you get people to help you become successful.
Gordon Bethune
#59. I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free.
Riccardo Tisci
#60. Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents ...
Barbara Holland
#61. The fact that you wish to become extremely
successful must mean that you currently do not see yourself as such.
Therefore, you need to change. The question you should be asking is
what do you need to become?
Chris Murray
#62. A lot of times when people become successful, people don't really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester.
Clinton Sparks
#63. There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.
Tracey Ullman
#64. No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.
Wendy Wasserstein
#65. To become a successful philosopher king, it is much better to start as a king than as a philosopher,
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#66. People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.
Frederick Lenz
#67. When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.
Tom Cruise
#68. Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become.
William Deresiewicz
#69. If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off that. No matter how successful I become, I always look at radio as the only skill set I can really call on. I even know how to operate the boards.
Carson Daly
#70. Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.
Jahangir Khan
#71. There is nothing else that I would rather do than sing. I have such a great passion for it. Even if I don't become successful or famous I am still going to continue singing.
Lucy Hale
#72. As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.
Irwin Winkler
#73. Success is about more than simple resilience. It's about using that downward momentum to propel ourselves in the opposite direction. It's about capitalizing on setbacks and adversity to become even happier, even more motivated, and even more successful. It's not falling down, it's falling up.
Shawn Achor
#74. We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina.
Mark Sanford
#75. A new era has dawned in Ontario; one where the air will be cleaner and the multiple costs of coal-fired generation have become a distant memory. Atikokan's successful conversion to biomass will put Ontario on the world map as a leader in using this sustainable fuel source for electricity production.
Bob Chiarelli
#76. Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.
Wayne Muller
#77. Life is based on leverage. The more you know how to leverage life, the more successful you will become.
Ehab Atalla
#78. Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to make tradeoffs. That's why some people become successful and then become flat. Be willing to give up income for potential, for opportunity.
John C. Maxwell
#79. I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what they know or how smart they are; it has everything to do with how healthy they are.
Patrick Lencioni
#80. When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don't have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn't concern me.
Stephen Merchant
#81. The amount of work you need to do to become a very successful celebrity is something I'm not prepared to do.
Rupert Graves
#82. When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
Glenn Beck
#83. So I think, every day, it's something to reflect on and think about 'How do I become less competitive in order that I can become more successful?
Timothy Ferriss
#84. 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
#85. We have to become vast, only then we can succeed;but we confine our thinking ability most of the times
Rajasaraswathii
#86. The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
Ben Affleck
#87. 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
#88. Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person's success is based on developing relationships, then they have to continually find new ways of getting it done
Mike Krzyzewski
#89. Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.
Brian Tracy
#90. People become successful the minute they decide to.
Harvey MacKay
#91. To become a better you, keep doing what you have been doing right and learn to correct what you have been doing wrongly.
Israelmore Ayivor
#92. The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
Henri Nouwen
#93. You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.
Michael Chabon
#94. Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
Marshall Goldsmith
#95. It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.
Liam Neeson
#96. Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#97. 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
#98. You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.
Kevin Nealon
#99. Life is addition! Death is subtraction. You add to your life by imagining whatsoever things are true, lovely, noble, and Godlike. Imagine and feel yourself successful, and you must become successful. You are never a slave to circumstances, environment, or conditions.
Joseph Murphy
#100. A successful life is expensive; it will cost you something to become a champion.
Mike Murdock
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