Top 680 Successful Quotes

It's hard to be successful over the long term if you're

It’s hard to be successful over the long term if you’re not unified and there’s not that synergy between coach and front office.
Stan Van Gundy
Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
Casey Stengel
It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood’s most successful and innovative genre.
Dwayne Johnson
Temerity is not always successful.
Livy
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
Ice Cube
When you’re that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can’t really tell whether you have created the momentum or it’s creating you.
Annie Lennox
If you’ve been associated and successful with a particular kind of acting for so many years, then it’s wise to continue in the same direction.
Govinda
If all you’re trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it’s unlikely that you’ll be very successful.
Michael Porter
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
Orson Welles
My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren’t very successful.
Quentin Bryce
Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.
Charles M. Schwab
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you’re producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
Adam Braun
Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That’s because they haven’t been exposed enough.
Norman Granz
Women need to lead the way to change our culture of burnout – both for their sake and also for the sake of successful men who desperately need a new model of success. And the still-very-macho world of STEM is a great place to start.
Arianna Huffington
Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.
Richard Branson
Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.
David Zinczenko
I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
Al Yankovic
Behind every successful man you’ll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
Harold Coffin
If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.
Rohit Shetty
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
Richard Branson
I don’t start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.
Mike Davidson
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
Billie Jean King
I believe the more successful an actor becomes, the more chances he should take. An actor never stops learning.
John Garfield
I just always knew that I was going to get some money, that I was going to be successful.
Yo Gotti
All political parties, if they are to be successful, have to be broad churches.
Dominic Grieve
Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
Lady Gaga
Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
Henry Petroski
I’ve never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I’m looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.
Don Johnson
Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.
Virat Kohli
I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what’s the fun in that?
Peter Dinklage
I did an episode on the TV show ‘Awake,’ and I thought, ‘Wow, that’s really hard.’ To do that so fast and to do that, if it’s very successful, for nine months out of the year, for a bunch of good years, that’s challenging. But, it was interesting. It’s a good show. You’d have to have a very good character, I guess.
Ayelet Zurer
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we c

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.
Thich Nhat Hanh
We’ve always actually been remarkably commercially successful. Not in terms of making huge amounts of money, which we rarely do, but in terms of not losing money and making modest amounts of money. We’re actually strangely consistent in that respect.
Ethan Coen
If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.
Jurgen Klopp
It’s a tough world but female jockeys have been successful so many times that hopefully the perception of riding against the boys will change and we will gain more opportunities.
Michelle Payne
The people you can’t stand can actually transform your life. And help you become happier, healthier, and more successful.
Robin S. Sharma
I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I want them to know they can be doctors, lawyers, teachers, fireman, police officers, etc.
Charles Barkley
As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers’ rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.
Elizabeth Esty
The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that’s great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it’s horrible.
Charles Koch
If I’m your boss, and I truly want you to be successful… I’m inherently going to teach you. I’m inherently going to correct your mistakes. I’m inherently going to spend time with you. I’m inherently going to lead you.
Jon Taffer
Lord knows one can use a distraction during divorce, and it’s great to feel you are again successful on your own, with your own identity.
Sonja Morgan
You can never predict what’s going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked ‘Mad Men.’
Christina Hendricks
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
Joel A. Barker
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.
Neil Armstrong
I knew I wanted to do music, but leaving such a successful career one would think I’d kind of shot myself in the foot. I knew I made the right decision, and at the end of the day it’s up to me to get where I want to go, but it’s a lot to take on.
Avi Kaplan
I didn’t have any of those good assets to have successful teenage years. It was hard. And what saved me was definitely my whole family. I knew where I was coming from and where I was going to.
Celine Dion
At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure.
Erin Cummings
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
Pink Floyd, the most successful progressive rock band of all time, have stood the test of time because the emphasis was always on melody and atmosphere.
Steven Wilson
I think it’s important not to get carried away when you are successful – and not to let yourself feel gloomy when times are bad.
Zhou Qunfei
Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.
Niall Ferguson
I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
Neil Armstrong
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
I was a litigation lawyer. That’s all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was some pull inside of me saying, self-publish this book. I followed that intuition and it’s been a great choice for me in my life.
Robin S. Sharma
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
A successful designer must be a gambler.
Elsa Schiaparelli