To Be Successful Quotes

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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