Top 680 Successful Quotes

It has gotten worse as I’m becoming more successful. My nerves. Just because there’s a bit more pressure, and people are expecting a lot more from me.
Adele
Making the playoffs is hard to come by, so if you can help contribute to your team’s success it’s always a successful time.
Adam Vinatieri
In order to be successful you need to have a good team with a good core, so my whole thing is that I was always encouraging my teammates, and I try to lead them by example to play together, to play as a team.
Al Horford
The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you’re successful on top of that, then you’re way ahead of everybody.
Martha Stewart
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Zig Ziglar
If you are going to be successful, there is no point in having three or four top individual players, because those players will win you games, but they will never win you titles.
Brendan Rodgers
I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
Madeleine Albright
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
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
Marya Mannes
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
Gail Sheehy
I think if you’re the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it’s a double pressure. More is expected of you.
Liam Neeson
Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don’t need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision – a way to be more successful – they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
Eric Ries
We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.
Henry L. Stimson
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie
Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it’s interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won’t remember them.
Daniel Kahneman
Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I’d pick my kids any day over any of it.
Toni Braxton
As every successful parent learns, one way to encourage good behavior, from room-cleaning to tooth-brushing, is to make it fun. Not surprisingly, the same principle applies to adults. Adults like to have fun, too.
Richard Thaler
The more successful you become, the more known you become, everything you say is minutely scrutinised a lot.
Kriti Sanon
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman
I’m not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.
Martha Stewart
Every shuttle mission’s been successful.
Christa McAuliffe
The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.
Kobe Bryant
Training is a part of being the best version of yourself and you need to be the best version of yourself to be successful.
Bugzy Malone
Traditional credentialing really doesn’t have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
Gabe Newell
What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting – so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not.
Alain de Botton
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits – a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
Oscar Isaac
I didn’t think I was going to change the world for women; I just did what I did. My big thing was that I didn’t change who and what I was to become successful. I will not be told what to do; I’m a real independent girl.
Suzi Quatro
I never went to college. But the structure I grew up wi

I never went to college. But the structure I grew up with was planted so deep that when it came to doing business, I knew how to be disciplined, create teamwork, and persevere. It set me up to be an entrepreneur and a successful franchiser.
Anne F. Beiler
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Groucho Marx
A successful competition for me is always going out there and putting 100 percent into whatever I’m doing. It’s not always winning. People, I think, mistake that it’s just winning. Sometimes it could be, but for me, it’s hitting the best sets I can, gaining confidence, and having a good time and having fun.
Simone Biles
A successful man is built of 1,000 failures.
Ray Allen
I’m lucky that I have whatever I had that makes me have a successful career, if you will.
Robert De Niro
I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization – the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities – is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.
Wladimir Klitschko
I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it’s still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex.
Robert Wilson
We don’t grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
James E. Burke
People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don’t end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.
Mark Manson
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Alexander Graham Bell
This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
Desmond Morris
It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings ’cause that’s what makes drama happen or tension even if it’s a comedy.
Claire Danes
Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.
David Brenner
I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.
Erno Rubik
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Tony Robbins
I think it’s always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it’s successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.
Joss Whedon
I thank God I didn’t become successful until I was older.
Tyler Perry
Let’s just say that I’ve spent a lot of time being not very successful.
Tobias Forge
A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it’s going to work. You can’t always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you’re needed most.
Nancy Pelosi
If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
Melinda Gates
Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you’re a successful comedian or actor, then you’re a famous one. But it’s not the driving force. It’s a by-product.
Ricky Gervais
I was lucky because I got so successful so early, and when you get successful early, then you can afford to be a little bit humble.
Diane von Furstenberg
Nobody’s perfect. Even the most successful people make serious mistakes.
Travis Bradberry
Becoming successful is a relentless pursuit. It’s good that it’s that way: When it does come, you learn to know how to appreciate it, and know how lucky you are to be doing something that you love so much.
Frankie Valli
To keep our region’s economy strong, we need to make sure Central Virginia students and workers receive the training required to remain competitive and successful.
Abigail Spanberger
I’m glad that young black people are successful with the music. I’m not a hater.
DMX
I don’t think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut’s books mostly I don’t feel are movie material.
Jerry Garcia
Sports provides that tool kit to be successful in life. Because it’s not always going to be smooth sailing.
Michelle Kwan
Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
Vince Gill
I think America is a new country. It is a young culture. The spirit of the opening of the West is still with the Americans. It’s a very practical and individual-based kind of philosophy that had worked in America for a long time, had been very successful. And the spirit is very much there.
Chen-Ning Yang
For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.
Vladimir Potanin