Successful Quotes

I still think that's successful, to make 50 bucks a day with your own music.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

Successful couples love each other with complete devotion

No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this.

The ages between birth and age 5 are the foundation upon which successful lives are built.

The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins.

Whatever made you successful in the past won't in future.

People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

It is not coincidence that at Barcelona we have low-key lifestyles and we have been successful. We know we are football players and not movie stars.

Temerity is not always successful.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.

When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer?

Successful innovations become conventions.

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

I don't think of color, I think that anyone wants a master of their skill and be successful knows no color.

Why not imagine yourself successful?

I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan.

God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

If you're going to be a good standup, or a successful standup, or a standup who can work for money, you have to eliminate the possibility of dying quickly.

You have to consistently be successful to be one of the top players in the world, and everything is possible in life.

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the 40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery and I think I'd suit that decade.

Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy.

The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion.

The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

For me, the idea of being a successful actor is hanging out with my dogs and my boy, down in Venice beach, and going, "I don't have to audition today. I've got a little respite here."

If you're successful, don't crow. If you're defeated, don't croak.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

I'm not as serious of a person as people make me out to be. Most people would think that I would be less successful in comedy, but I can crack a joke as well as anyone else.

It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.

If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!

I have a need to do something and know I can be successful.

In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.

I was going to strive at something that I loved to do. And I didn't care what the outcome was; I wanted it to be something successful, I wanted to move forward.