Trying To Be Successful Quotes

#1. Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

Orison Swett Marden

#2. He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.

Daniel Clowes

#3. To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

Patrick Swayze

#4. So that was an important part of the process and strangely, early on, we started to realize, in that respect, we were successful in what we were trying to do, which is make a film that everybody would be able come out and not be scratching their head at all.

Bryan Burk

#5. The reality is that no one can be authentic by trying to be like someone else. There is no doubt you can learn from their experiences, but there is no way you can be successful trying to be like them. People trust you when you are genuine and authentic, not an imitation.

Bill George

#6. [it] may have hastened his move to the private sector because there was such an outpouring of bitter criticism ... The result, if this is successful, will not be much different from what Sen. Lott and others were trying to enact back then ... It may be that we are all just older and wiser.

Roger Wicker

#7. I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

Anne Sweeney

#8. If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.

Mark Haddon

#9. My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.

Lauryn Hill

#10. You think it's going to be easy? Forget about it! Don't even try to be successful!

Eric Thomas

#11. It's so important to always be yourself. If you do that, you will be successful as you, instead of worrying about trying to conform.

Leighton Meester

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

Tessanne Chin

#13. It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.

Steve Goodier

#14. Culture is a way of working together toward common goals that have been followed so frequently and so successfully that people don't even think about trying to do things another way. If a culture has formed, people will autonomously do what they need to do to be successful.

Clayton M Christensen

#15. It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#16. Failing doesn't make us a failure. But not trying to do better, to be better, does make us fools.

Wes Moore

#17. I'm a southern girl from Arkansas and I am just tryin to do my thing in the business. To make a long story short I'm just trying to be successful at what I do and work hard.

Kiley Dean

#18. I was hoping for 13 episodes that my friends would like. It's a good lesson, isn't it? If you do something trying to make your friends laugh and that you can be proud of, you can also be successful.

Sam Simon

#19. Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial ... a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer.

James Kisner

#20. Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was.

James Carriger Paine

#21. Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.

Henry Fonda

#22. Basic research is not the same as development. A crash programme for the latter may be successful; but for the former it is like trying to make nine women pregnant at once in the hope of getting a baby in a month's time.

Richard Doll

#23. We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

Wendy Kopp

#24. If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

Michael Porter

#25. 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

#26. Successful improvisation is mostly a matter of taking your thoughts out of the equation, because thinking can keep the magic from happening. You have to be open enough to let the magic happen, instead of trying to make it happen because magic is never made.

Jimmy Herring

#27. The challenge is trying to set people free, and help them be 'successful' in the world, which are almost always opposite objectives.

Bryant McGill

#28. I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich. Look poor.

Andy Warhol

#29. Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets ... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.

Wyclef Jean

#30. I'm just trying to stay aggressive and mix things up enough to be successful.

Roy Oswalt

#31. He's been so successful, arguably the best quarterback ever to play the game. If you were trying to follow his footsteps, it would be incredibly difficult. I'd go crazy if I woke up every day and tried to compare myself to Peyton Manning.

Andrew Luck

#32. When you're younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind of personal life, can really be terrible.

Kathy Baker

#33. Everybody just tries to be successful. Like, sure, it's good to be successful, but if you're working that hard? This is how I feel, I work so many hours a day, and I'm always working, I'm always traveling.

Justin Bieber

#34. If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

Stephen Chow

#35. I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.

Lauryn Hill

#36. Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.

Andy Andrews

#37. I'm not some cute guy who is trying to be successful off that. I really want the music to come first.

Phillip Phillips

#38. When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.

William Jennings Bryan

#39. I guess my work is described a lot of the time as very sensual and sexy. When I take a picture, I'm very focused on trying to discover something about a person. Or about an idea. I try to be quite successful at it.

Mario Sorrenti

#40. I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

Robert Griffin III

#41. But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

Ludacris

#42. If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

Jack Canfield