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Be Successful Quotes

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
- Bryan Adams

But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
- Gerry Adams

I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction,' we all knew.
- Steven Adler

To be successful, you need to do two things:
1. Condition your hair,
2. Do the same with your mind.
- Manhardeep Singh Ahluwalia

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
- Sherman Alexie

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
- Ted Allen

Over the years I have learned that when I need answers to deal with crises, people, and issues, I must go to God. God will help us in everything we do if we stay in tune and if we will call on him. We must each plan our future with him in our homes, our families, and our relationships with others. If we make him our senior partner, our lives can be successful.
- Marvin J Ashton

Each day gives the opportunity for you to be treated right, to feel worthy, and to be successful. It's a choice you have to make, faith you have to have, and it's a truth about you that you only need to see.
- Steve Maraboli

But it is fortunate,'' thought she, that I have something to wish for. Were the whole arrangement complete, my disappointment would be certain. But here, by my carrying with me one ceaseless source of regret in my sister's absence, I may reasonably hope to have all my expectations of pleasure realized. A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
- Jane Austen

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.
- Booker T Washington

I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.
- Donovan Bailey

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

I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.
- Maria Bartiromo

I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
- Ed Belfour

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

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.
- Dennis Bergkamp

I wanted to be successful, not famous.
- George Harrison

What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.
- Joan Blades

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
- Edward De Bono

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
- Alain De Botton

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
- David Brin

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.
- Sergey Brin

I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job. We've indulged you long enough.' I don't think they ever thought I was going to be successful in entertainment at all.
- Kelly Brook

I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun.
- Julie Brown

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.
- Zig Ziglar

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
- Tony Robbins

Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.
- Mel Carnahan

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.
- Mel Carnahan

I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.
- Jimmy Carter

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
- Chanakya

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
- Lou Holtz

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

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.
- Camille Claudel

The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.
- Hillary Clinton

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.
- Terry Pratchett

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.
- Mason Cooley

Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you.
- Robin Cousins

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.
- Bob Cousy

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
- Michael Jordan

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
- Ice Cube

Negotiation is a give-and-take process, but being in control of the process is the only way to be successful at it.
- Celso Cukierkorn

I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.
- Kenny Dalglish

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.
- Chuck Daly

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
- Michael Dell

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.
- Thomas John Watson Sr

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.
- Alan Dershowitz

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

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.
- John Doolittle

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.
- Milan Kundera

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
- George Orwell

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.
- Kim Elizabeth

Sooner or later, the man who learnt lessons from his failures will be the one to be sought first for guidance, counsel and formula on how to be successful in life's endeavours.
- Ogwo David Emenike

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.
- Stephen Evans

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
- Malcolm Forbes

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.
- Dorothea Benton Frank

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
- Will Rogers

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.
- Lady Gaga

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.
- Steve Garvey

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?
- Ryan Giggs

I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.
- Lori Greiner

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
- Wayne Gretzky

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.
- Michael Grimm

I would want to teach my children someday that they should strive to be successful.
- Michael Grimm

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.
- Judith Guest

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
- Eddie Van Halen

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.
- Ruth Handler

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.
- Steve Harvey

I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.
- Trip Hawkins

Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy.
- Alexis Herman

The Lord would want you to be successful. He would. You are His sons and His daughters. He has the same kind of love and ambition for you that your earthly parents have. They want you to do well and you can do it.
- Gordon B Hinckley

To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.
- Anthony Hitt

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.
- Wyclef Jean

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
- Donald Johanson

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.
- Elton John

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
- Florence Griffith Joyner

To be the best, you have to be willing to do what nobody does. And today, if nobody reads and nobody works hard, then you also have to give up reading and become lethargic to be successful.
- Jarod Kintz

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
- Leon Kass

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.
- Mother Teresa

To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
- Nastassja Kinski

You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.
- Saku Koivu

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.
- E L Konigsburg

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
- Shia Labeouf

I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all.
- Nick Lachey

I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it.
- Jennifer Lawrence

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful.
- Timothy Leary

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work is done. Woody Allen famously declared that "eighty percent of success is showing up." NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) teaches kids how to show up again and again.
- Jonah Lehrer

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
- James A Lovell

It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love.
- Lyle Lovett

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.
- Alicia Machado

This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
- Gavin Macleod

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf

If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.
- Bobby Mcferrin

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
- Golda Meir

In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.
- Robert Mueller

I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
- Kate Mulgrew

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.
- Rupert Murdoch

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.
- Jimmy Nail

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.
- David Neeleman

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
- Gregory Nunn

If you never give up, you'll be successful.
- Dan Obrien

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.
- Solomon Ortiz

Bands like The Move, Traffic and The Moody Blues were proving that you didn't have to be from Liverpool to be successful.
- Ozzy Osbourne

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

No show would be successful if you took a group of people and just said, 'You're dumb!' over and over. That's not what Broadway's about.
- Trey Parker

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale

He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.
- Iain Pears

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
- Edith Piaf

After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.
- Nelson Piquet

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
- George Porter

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
- Munshi Premchand

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!
- Katie Price

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.
- Paula Radcliffe

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
- Bill Rancic

He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.
- Lee R Raymond

Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories.
- Frederick Reines

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
- Amy Tan

You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.
- Condoleezza Rice

Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
- Donald Rumsfeld

It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.
- Katey Sagal

Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.
- Joe Sakic

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
- Aaron Sanchez

We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina.
- Mark Sanford

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.
- David Sarnoff

If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.
- Rick Scott

If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.
- Connie Sellecca

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.
- Sidney Sheldon

To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.
- Sidney Sheldon

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
- Patti Smith

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.
- Mark Spitz

To be successful, one must take chances.
- Willie Stargell

I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I've learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do.
- Roger Staubach

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.
- Howard Stern

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.
- Cat Stevens

She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.
- Connie Stevens

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.
- Ben Stiller

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.
- George Strait

The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there's arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there.
- Cheryl Strayed

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
- Bjarne Stroustrup

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
- Donna Summer

I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.
- Kurt Sutter

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.
- James Talent

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.
- Rod Taylor

It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.
- Alexis De Tocqueville

Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!
- Kiana Tom

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
- Brian Tracy

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

I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.
- Alice Walker

If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber

Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?
- Allen West

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.
- Armstrong Williams

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.
- Dave Winfield

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
- Dave Winfield

I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of our democratic order will be successful.
- Girma Woldegiorgis

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
- Ed Wood

If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.
- Toby Young

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.
- David Zucker

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