Successful Quotes

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.

Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.

Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

If you are successful because of Hip Hop, which I am, then you have to recognize that Hip Hop is nothing if not a product of the street, therefore you have to give something back.

Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.

I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.

Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.

It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments, and very welcoming.

I've heard it for years, if you're very successful you can't run for high office, especially for President.

I've never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn't have a big ego. Ego's not a bad thing.

I've been very successful at negotiating debates.

I had a TV show called 'The Apprentice' and it's one of the most successful reality shows in the history of television. And now I'm doing something else.

That's one of the reasons I'm successful, I do tend to do the right thing.

I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.

If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.

I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.

At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies.

TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where, if you're successful, you go on for years.

I would imagine that most of the people who consider themselves successful aren't, at least in the ways that really matter-myself included.

Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

Hopefully I'll fit the television in there. Maybe it'll be like music and television and movies. I mean, who knows? But hopefully I can be successful at everything I do.

Follow your passion and you'll be successful.

I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom about Father's Day and why it's not celebrated like Mother's Day.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.

There are so many international musical connections here, in Amsterdam. And some of them are amazingly successful.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

It's much more important for U.S. to be able to defend against foreign attacks than it is to be able to launch successful attacks against foreign adversaries.

I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.

I feel like I'm struggling now, and nearly every musician I know feels that way - even the most successful ones. I realize that I'm very lucky, but I still feel like I could be doing so much better.

We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.

People always say congratulations. When you're a successful bidder it means you're willing to spend more money than anyone else. I'm not sure if that's congratulations or condolences.

I think the guys that are successful might be a little more relaxed and able to deal with the distractions.

I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!

I dont walk around feeling like Im successful. I feel like I did well.

After three major movies, I was like, 'Oh, I guess you're supposed to get a publicist?' Girls that are in the business now that are successful are more savvy.

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.

At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves.

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.