Top 1200 Successful Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value

I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people's faces, then I think I'll be successful.

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

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.

If you're going to be truly successful, then set yourself apart from everyone else. Go beyond the limits of what classifies the average person and be exceptional.

Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.

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.

The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

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

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

I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers.

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.

People can say what they want about a person, but if you're successful and you make them money, then people don't care.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Success: The successful person is willing to do what the unsuccessful person is not willing to do. Draw a profile of success in whatever you are choosing to improve. If you are willing to do what that profile demands, then you have a credible demand of success. If you are not willing to do that then it just will not be there for you. You can't have the one without the other.

To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

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

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

Keep this question in mind: 'What would I think of this if I exchanged places with the other person?' It paves the way to more successful action.

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.

Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear, and powerful in the midst of emotional 'storms'.

Well, isn't every successful person in every family the bankbook?

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.

To be successful in anything, a person must always want to be better, not only than your opponent but better than your last performance. Done correctly, being competitive is a wonderful way to always try to be a better person by learning from your mistakes and capitalizing on your successes.

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.

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.

Ultimately, I think to be successful in fashion, you have to turn into the most incredible HR person. It's about politics. I'm massaging egos and keeping everyone happy.

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

A successful person allows his results to speak for him, not his mouth.

When I was in a meeting, I got advice that was someone telling me that in order to be successful, I needed to create the character Mac Miller that couldn't be the same person as who I really was.

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

The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process.

What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin.

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

If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.

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

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

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

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

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.

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.

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

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

In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.

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

If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.

I'm a good-hearted person and my biggest goal is to be successful. That's really the biggest part about me.

Any reasonable person looking at the policy results... the substance... the facts would agree that the Trump presidency is one of the most successful in American history.

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 is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. Few things in life are better than seeing people realize their potential. If you invest in people by helping individuals improve themselves, showing them the way to their “right place”, they will never be the same again. And neither will you. It is impossible to help others without helping yourself.

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

There are over 1.5 billion Muslims throughout the world, starting from Mecca in the desert from one person. What made them successful? It's because they had guidelines that they followed.

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