299 Quotes on Successful

• Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

  Author: Zig Ziglar

• I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now.

  Author: Markus Wolf

• Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

  Author: Dick Wolf

• The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• 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.

  Author: Girma Woldegiorgis

• You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

  Author: Robert Wise

• If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

  Author: E. Wilson

• You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

  Author: H. Wells

• The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

  Author: Orson Welles

• I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

  Author: Jack Welch

• 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.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

  Author: James Watson

• I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

  Author: Shania Twain

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

  Author: Tanya Tucker

• We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

  Author: Thuy Trang

• Yes, we are fortunate because as a band we've always been on the up, always getting more successful.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have no clear plan to strengthen our economy, as Republicans do.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

  Author: James Thurber

• Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

  Author: Thucydides

• A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

  Author: William Thackeray

• 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.

  Author: Rod Taylor

• The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

  Author: Herbert Swope

• I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

• The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

  Author: Charles Sturt

• I've been very, very successful. It's very satisfying to me.

  Author: Gloria Stuart

• 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.

  Author: Bjarne Stroustrup

• So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.

  Author: Michael Strahan

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  Author: W. Stone

• 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.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.

  Author: Connie Stevens

• 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.

  Author: Cat Stevens

• I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

  Author: Howard Stern

• I will never feel successful.

  Author: Howard Stern

• Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• To be successful, one must take chances.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• I really believe everything is here for us to be very successful.

  Author: Steve Spurrier

• 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.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

  Author: Tris Speaker

• There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.

  Author: John Snow

• More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

  Author: Joey Skaggs

• The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.

  Author: Ariel Sharon

• Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

  Author: Connie Sellecca

• You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

  Author: John Sebastian

• The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.

  Author: Michael Schudson

• The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

  Author: Erwin Schrodinger

• A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

  Author: George Santayana

• In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.

  Author: Erno Rubik

• Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

  Author: Pete Rozelle

• We've been probably to some degree too successful.

  Author: Karl Rove

• It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.

  Author: James Roosevelt

• Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years.

  Author: James Roosevelt

• I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV.

  Author: Al Roker

• Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.

  Author: Joe Rogan

• 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.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

  Author: Dennis Ritchie

• Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

  Author: Donna Rice

• 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.

  Author: Frederick Reines

• 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.

  Author: Michael Porter

• No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

  Author: Frank Pittman

• So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.

  Author: John Perkins

• I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

  Author: Robin Penn

• Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

  Author: Norman Peale

• All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

  Author: George Patton

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

  Author: Elaine Paige

• No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

  Author: William Osler

• 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.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• If you never give up, you'll be successful.

  Author: Dan O'Brien

• Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

  Author: Gregory Nunn

• I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

  Author: Peter Noone

• When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.

  Author: Pierre Nicole

• I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

  Author: Charles Nicole

• I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

  Author: Bob Newhart

• And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.

  Author: Eddie Murray

• The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

  Author: Lord Mountbatten

• It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.

  Author: Marguerite Moreau

• The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications.

  Author: David Milne

• Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

  Author: Merton Miller

• The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

  Author: Bryan Miller

• The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.

  Author: Freddie Mercury

• I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

  Author: Christopher Meloni

• It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

  Author: Ian Mcewan

• I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

  Author: Will McDonough

• Every shuttle mission's been successful.

  Author: Christa McAuliffe

• New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

  Author: Ernst Mayr

• A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

  Author: Orison Marden

• No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

  Author: Orison Marden

• The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

  Author: Orison Marden

• The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.

  Author: Ray Manzarek

• In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

  Author: Barry Mann

• Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

  Author: Maxwell Maltz

• Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

  Author: Andre Malraux

• 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.

  Author: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

• A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.

  Author: Elle Macpherson

• But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.

  Author: Gavin MacLeod

• But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

  Author: James MacArthur

• If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

  Author: Arthur Lydiard

• The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

  Author: Hugh Lofting

• Temerity is not always successful.

  Author: Titus Livius

• When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

  Author: John Lithgow

• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

  Author: Kurt Lewin

• 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.

  Author: Annie Lennox

• I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

  Author: Jennifer Leigh

• When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

  Author: James Leach

• 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.

  Author: Jennifer Lawrence

• I don't think that McMahon thinks very much about the fact that J.R and I have been successful. I don't think that McMahon thinks the wrestling announcers really have that much to contribute the show.

  Author: Jerry Lawler

• In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

  Author: Niki Lauda

• We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services.

  Author: John Larson

• As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

  Author: Greg Lake

• The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

  Author: Imre Lakatos

• A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

  Author: Ray Kurzweil

• It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

  Author: Jerry Kramer

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

  Author: Saku Koivu

• The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

  Author: Beyonce Knowles

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

  Author: Nastassja Kinski

• The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge.

  Author: Ron Kind

• They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen.

  Author: Margot Kidder

• Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.

  Author: Jahangir Khan

• Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

  Author: John Keynes

• Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of cracking down on countries who export the materials to create meth into the United States.

  Author: Mark Kennedy

• Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

  Author: Robbie Keane

• Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

  Author: Elia Kazan

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

  Author: Leon Kass

• There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.

  Author: Kim Jung

• If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

  Author: Wynonna Judd

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

  Author: Florence Joyner

• 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.

  Author: Michael Jordan

• A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamt of by its author.

  Author: Stephen Johnson

• I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

  Author: Kevin Johnson

• What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.

  Author: Holly Johnson

• It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico.

  Author: Gary Johnson

• I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

  Author: Don Johnson

• Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

  Author: Elton John

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

  Author: Donald Johanson

• But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

  Author: Penn Jillette

• Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

  Author: Jerry Jenkins

• It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

  Author: William James

• Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.

  Author: Victoria Jackson

• I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.

  Author: Ian Jackson

• Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

  Author: Jeremy Irons

• No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

  Author: James Iha

• The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

  Author: Lee Iacocca

• Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

  Author: William Hurt

• I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.

  Author: Brett Hull

• I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

  Author: Brett Hull

• 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.

  Author: Edgar Howe

• In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

  Author: Lou Holtz

• One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

  Author: Dustin Hoffman

• 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.

  Author: Anthony Hitt

• The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

  Author: Alfred Hitchcock

• It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

  Author: Ruben Hinojosa

• Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  Author: Napolean Hill

• Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  Author: Napolean Hill

• Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  Author: Napolean Hill

• Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

  Author: Keith Henson

• Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

  Author: Don Henley

• I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

  Author: Bobby Heenan

• This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States.

  Author: Michael Hayden

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

  Author: Trip Hawkins

• You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.

  Author: Dan Hawkins

• I wanted to be successful, not famous.

  Author: George Harrison

• The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.

  Author: Phil Harris

• Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.

  Author: Laurell Hamilton

• The search for someone to blame is always successful.

  Author: Robert Half

• I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

  Author: David Guterson

• I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.

  Author: James Gunn

• I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

  Author: Cathy Guisewite

• I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

  Author: Judith Guest

• I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?

  Author: Colin Greenwood

• The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

  Author: Bob Goodlatte

• The jests of the rich are ever successful.

  Author: Oliver Goldsmith

• Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

  Author: William Gladstone

• I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

  Author: Boy George

• 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.

  Author: Steve Garvey

• There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

  Author: Lesley Garrett

• As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

  Author: Jesse Garrett

• I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

  Author: Jerry Garcia

• A good title is the title of a successful book.

  Author: Robert Gallagher

• All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

  Author: John Galbraith

• So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

  Author: Antoine Fuqua

• Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

  Author: R. Fuller

• A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

  Author: Robert Frost

• The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

  Author: Erich Fromm

• We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

  Author: Felix Frankfurter

• I don't think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth.

  Author: Vincent Frank

• So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference.

  Author: Virginia Foxx

• The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

  Author: Gene Fowler

• Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.

  Author: Anne Ford

• Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film.

  Author: Henry Fonda

• You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

  Author: Dan Fogelberg

• If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

  Author: Carlisle Floyd

• I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.

  Author: Martin Fleischmann

• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  Author: F. Fitzgerald

• If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

  Author: Dorothy Fields

• If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

  Author: Shawn Fanning

• I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.

  Author: Greg Evigan

• I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

  Author: Stephen Evans

• We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.

  Author: Anna Eshoo

• I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.

  Author: John Engler

• There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

  Author: Dwight Eisenhower

• So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

  Author: Jermaine Dupri

• The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.

  Author: Jim Doyle

• 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.

  Author: John Doolittle

• Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

  Author: Benjamin Disraeli

• I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

  Author: Ajay Devgan

• Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

  Author: Dan DeCarlo

• Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

  Author: Robin Day

• Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

  Author: Bette Davis

• I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

  Author: Paula Danziger

• No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

  Author: Mitch Daniels

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

  Author: Chuck Daly

• I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

  Author: Chuck Daly

• I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.

  Author: Kenny Dalglish

• The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

  Author: Quentin Crisp

• 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.

  Author: Bob Cousy

• I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

  Author: Francis Coppola

• Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

  Author: Francis Coppola

• I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

  Author: Tre Cool

• You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29.

  Author: Robert Conrad

• Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

  Author: James Coleman

• My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

  Author: Jonathan Coe

• 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.

  Author: Hillary Clinton

• But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

  Author: Patricia Clarkson

• I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

  Author: Linford Christie

• Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

  Author: Lydia Child

• There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

  Author: Alexander Chase

• Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

  Author: Prince Charles

• I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

  Author: Charlie Chaplin

• I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

  Author: David Cassidy

• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  Author: Dale Carnegie

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

  Author: Mel Carnahan

• There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

  Author: Bliss Carman

• For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

  Author: Melvin Calvin

• We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

  Author: James Burke

• I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

  Author: Lindsey Buckingham

• Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

  Author: Rita Brown

• I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun.

  Author: Julie Brown

• Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

  Author: Helen Brown

• Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

  Author: Bob Brown

• The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

  Author: Van Brooks

• You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

  Author: Claude Bristol

• A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

  Author: David Brinkley

• 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.

  Author: Sergey Brin

• No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you.

  Author: Todd Bridges

• Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

  Author: David Brenner

• The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.

  Author: Matthew Bourne

• The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

  Author: Pierre Bourdieu

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

  Author: Edward Bono

• In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful.

  Author: Leo Bogart

• I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

  Author: Harold Bloom

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

  Author: Joan Blades

• It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

  Author: Henry Bessemer

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

  Author: Dennis Bergkamp

• 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.

  Author: Ed Belfour

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

  Author: Ed Belfour

• When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.

  Author: Ed Belfour

• Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!

  Author: Kate Beckinsale

• Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

  Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov

• I loved Australia. I was very successful there.

  Author: Todd Barry

• Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

  Author: Joel Barker

• 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.

  Author: Joel Barker

• I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.

  Author: Robert Barany

• The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

  Author: Douglas Bader

• If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

  Author: Kevin Bacon

• The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

  Author: Roger Babson

• As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.

  Author: Julian Assange

• I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

  Author: Neil Armstrong

• Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

  Author: Hannah Arendt

• However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

  Author: Francesca Annis

• You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

  Author: Clive Anderson

• The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

  Author: Stephen Ambrose

• For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

  Author: B. Ambedkar

• The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

  Author: Wayne Allard

• Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.

  Author: Jenny Agutter

• Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

  Author: Maude Adams

• There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

  Author: George Adams

• As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

  Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

• I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

  Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

• I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

  Author: Lynn Abbey

• Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

  Author: Hank Aaron

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