Top 1200 Successful Quotes & Sayings

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

You're always as good as your last movie and that's the same with politics. If you are successful with a certain policy, then you're hot; if you're successful with the economy, or bringing down the unemployment rate, then you're hot. But if you're not successful, then things go south very quickly.

I think that the word 'ambitious' is still used in a derogatory way when it comes to women, in a way that it's not when it comes to men. It's a generalisation because not everyone is like this, but I think there's almost a love-hate relationship going on with successful women, where you can be a little bit successful and you'll be celebrated, but don't become too successful because that seems to bring out the hate in some cases. Take one glance at social media and you can see that successful women don't seem to be treated with the same respect as successful men.

I've learned that just because you're successful in one area doesn't necessarily mean you'll be successful in another.

I knew I wanted to be successful in some form or fashion. My first dreams and aspirations of being successful was probably that I wanted to be a successful drug dealer. I wanted to be Nino Brown. That was my first dream.

A show can be artistically successful; a show can be financially successful; a show can be successful by the transformative experience the audience is having; a show can be successful from the point of view of what is experienced by the cast and the company on a daily basis.

Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.

Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman.

To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.

I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

I think everybody wants everybody to be successful. There is that competitive nature, in a sense that everybody wants to be the best, but if A.J. Styles is more successful, and Braun Strowman is more successful, that makes the company more successful.

Success means successful living. When you are peaceful, happy, joyous and doing what you love to do, you are successful.

Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

It turns out that one of the biggest drivers of investors are both successful and non-successful startup founders.

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people.

For actors, being successful is generally getting a job. If you can work a lot, you're really successful. If you work a lot on projects that are interesting and intelligent and great fun to be part of, then you're hugely successful. And I feel hugely successful. I can't believe that I get to be involved with the projects and the people I work with.

I know there's a difference between being successful and feeling successful. And if you ask me if I feel successful, the honest answer is 'not yet.'

Was I a successful father? Maybe not. Was I a successful husband? Probably not. Was I a successful actor? Probably not.

I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.

Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.

I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.

You're going to be successful or you're not going to be successful. You have to handle success and not being successful in the same way.

I learned that you can be successful if you get people to help you become successful.

What I know now is that everybody in life, no matter where you are or what you do, must be able to sell in order to be successful. I used to believe that I could be successful on talent alone. What I realize now is that I can only be successful if I can have people buy my talent.

To do well those thing which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman... We should never be discouraged in those daily tasks which God has ordained to the common lot of man... Let us not be trying to substitute an artificial life for the true one.

I have had a comfortable and successful working relationship with Bokadia. We have done successful films together.

I do not think I am successful just because I have money. I'm successful because I love who I am and I have no regrets, and I'm successful because I have a great heart and I have compassion and I care and I would be happy with or without money.

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.

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

Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.

The only reason to do a television series is to make it successful. And if it is successful, that's a six or seven year commitment.

Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.

Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Today, campaigning isn't an 'interruption' but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner, it's expected you'll be a successful president.

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.

The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back.

It's quite interesting, looking back at the first one [film about Harry Potter], nobody knew whether or not it was going to be successful as a film. The books were of course already very successful, but that's happened before, where the books were successful and the films weren't at all. But it turned out that they were.

When you're doing well and you're successful, part of being successful is that you get interviewed. But it ruins the moment.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life.

One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around.

Any time you meet a great successful player, a successful star, it's just an honour to be in their presence.

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

When you're in youth development, you have to develop players - win or come in second. But the job where I am and the reality of our industry is to win to be successful, and that is what I have to do. I have to be successful, and I want to be successful, so we'll do everything we can do to win.

The capacity to creatively improvise is an important factor that differentiates successful companies - or teams - from those that are not successful.

JPMorgan Chase are among the most successful global investment banks, most successful global asset managers, and, in the United States, one of the most successful retail and commercial bankers. We do a great job for customers.

It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.