Be Successful Quotes

Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.

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!

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

I've never met a successful pessimist.

Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.

The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.

Strange medical news from Pakistan: A man had a successful organ transplant with a dog. They gave the man a dog's organ. In a related story today, Keith Richards was seen chasing a mailman.

There is no such thing as a successful defense.

I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns.

If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart.

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

Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

I had that hunger, that desire, to be successful and I wasn’t going to let anything stand in my way.

Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

You are not a true success unless you are helping others be successful.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

The most successful people in life have the best information

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another

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.

In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.