Successful quotes

Discover inspiring quotes on success and achieving greatness. Motivate yourself with a collection of words that celebrate the triumphs of those who have achieved their goals.

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.

- Frank Shorter

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

- Golda Meir

It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.

- Peter Hobson

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.

- Margot Kidder

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

- Douglas Bader

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

- Robert Half

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.

- Virginia Foxx

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.

- Al Roker

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

- Thucydides

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

- Linford Christie

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

- Joey Skaggs

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

- Orson Welles

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.

- Michael Schudson

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

- Joe Rogan

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.

- Matthew Bourne

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

- Van Wyck Brooks

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.

- Donna Rice

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

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

- Clive Anderson

I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.

- Kenny Dalglish