Becoming Successful Quotes

A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful. ~ Steve Harvey

To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful ~ Robin Sharma

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be. ~ Harvey MacKay

It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful. ~ Maya Angelou

But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful. ~ Charles Ferguson

Only you can decide what you become. ~ Seth Adam Smith

I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful. ~ NeNe Leakes

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create. ~ Jack White

Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time? ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones. ~ Napoleon Hill

The best thing about becoming successful is that you get flowers all the time. ~ Julie Brown

The secret of a successful art career is to make more art that folks think they need than pieces they just want. When a piece of art emotionally connects with a person the work becomes a need. You are then on your way to becoming successful. ~ Jack White

When I make a movie, I just make the movie. I don't think about the success of it. If it becomes successful, that's an amazing treat. If it doesn't, you had a great time making it and you learned from it, and then you make a new thing. ~ Jane Levy

The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful. ~ Frank Leahy

We all naturally want to become successful ... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice. ~ Apolo Ohno

Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized. ~ Luis Fortuno

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people - I categorize them as life's losers - who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves. ~ Donald J. Trump

Reading more books will only confuse you more and you will be dreaming about success instead of becoming successful yourself. ~ Mwanandeke Kindembo

Don't be (dis.grun.tled), disgruntled that someone else is more successful than you are. Let their success motivate you to become successful. ~ Jon Jones

I realized the more I made the music for myself, the more successful I was becoming. ~ Daniel Powter

There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't. ~ Tracey Ullman

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Becoming successful is a rough journey that carries pain and requires perseverance. ~ Auliq Ice

Showing up is important and it is a big part of becoming successful. ~ Andy Albright

We can become great in the eyes of others, but we'll never become successful when we compromise our character and show disloyalty toward friends or teammates. The reverse is also true: No individual or team will become great without loyalty. ~ John Wooden

What surprised me about directing is how much I loved it and how happy I am to be on the set. I love coming to work in the morning. What I realized is that I never loved acting. I don't love being in the hair and makeup chair. I don't [love] being in costume. To me the strangest thing is that I've just spent the majority of my life in one aspect of this business, and because I was fortunate enough to become successful I never questioned whether I felt at home and found out later in life that I'm much happier directing. ~ Angelina Jolie

Before you become successful, you have to fall down on your face. ~ Paul Coffey

I didn't become successful until I became myself ~ Sam Smith

Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what you do. ~ Brian Chippendale

I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I didn't give up until about ten days. I don't think I really told my father. I really didn't like my father knowing my things were not successful. ~ Charles Schwab

If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage. ~ Del Close

Princeton University recently did a study revealing what those of us paying attention already know all too well: The United States is, in scientifically proven fact, not a democracy. They concluded that the U.S. is controlled by economic elites. This is a prominent idea that is becoming popular. The structural reason that voting is redundant is that through the funding of political parties, lobbying, and cronyism, corporations are able to ensure that their interests are prioritized above the needs of the electorate and that ideas that contravene their agenda don't even make it into the sphere of public debate. Whoever you vote for, you'll be voting for a party that represents a big-business agenda, not the will of the people. ~ Russell Brand

It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right. ~ William Ernest Hocking

There is no shame in feeling broken. In seeking help. In searching for healing. Sometimes it is the breaking that leads us to the source of our own becoming. But we need not suffer alone. When you feel trauma or shame, if you feel depressed or alone – speak your truth, ask for help, insist without ceasing on the support that you need. You are not alone. As long as I am on this earth and forever after – you will never be alone. ~ Jeanette LeBlanc

The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~ Mary McCarthy

If you dreamt of being successful and don't try even once for it, you already failed as soon as you woke up! ~ Palak Kundra

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful. ~ Rita Mae Brown

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body. ~ Joan Collins

By becoming aware of God's Spirit, by slowing down and paying attention to the tastes and sounds and smells of the food we make and eat, we infuse our meals - and by extension our hearts - with a sense of awe, a depth of prayer that cannot help but transform our mindless eating into moving meditations. ~ Mary DeTurris Poust

An honest being who does not behave absurdly has no
chance at all of becoming famous, or even of being noticed, however kind
and sensible he may be. ~ G.I. Gurdjieff

Today is hard but who cares, by each hard day we are making stair for us. ~ Avinash Prasad

The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful. ~ Jodie Foster

The people who think of themselves as White have the choice of becoming human or irrelevant. ~ James Baldwin

Sometimes women's attraction to true crime is dismissed as trashy and voyeuristic (because women are vapid!). Sometimes it is unquestioningly celebrated as feminist (because if women like something, then it must be feminist!). And some argue that women read about serial killers to avoid becoming victims. This is the most flattering theory - and also, it seemed to me, the most incomplete. By presuming that women's dark thoughts were merely pragmatic, those thoughts are drained of their menace. True crime wasn't something we women at CrimeCon were consuming begrudgingly, for our own good. We found pleasure in these bleak accounts of kidnappings and assaults and torture chambers, and you could tell by how often we fell back on the language of appetite, of bingeing, of obsession. A different, more alarming hypothesis was the one I tended to prefer: perhaps we liked creepy stories because something creepy was in us. ~ Rachel Monroe

Becoming aware of fragility, of temporality, of the fact that we will surely all be lost to one another, sooner or later, mandates a clear imperative to be totally kind and loving to each other always [p.119]. ~ Sylvia Boorstein

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor. ~ Man Ray

I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work. ~ Kenneth Goldsmith

Books that take us to an exotic place and never let the grit of that place get under our fingernails...are far less successful. One leaves the places of the book and never feels like one's really gotten one's imaginative passport stamped. ~ Andrew Lazo

Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo. ~ Cornel West

Don't just create; create to change; change to improve; improve to increase. Aspire to inspire. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Someone's darkness disappears when you show up and allow your light to shine ~ Yemi Akinsiwaju

The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems. ~ Philip Arthur Fisher

If schools continue to follow an outdated educational model focusing on preparation for an industrialized workforce, they run the risk of becoming irrelevant to our students and communities. ~ Eric C. Sheninger

Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized. ~ Peter Diamandis

Yes, my friends - it's becoming Jewniversally apparent. ~ James Ellroy

A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits. ~ Hippocrates

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

A beautiful question shifts the way we think about something and often sets in motion a process than can result in change. Entrepreneurs-o r at least the successful ones-do a great job asking beautiful questions. They almost have no choice -their whole reason for being is to disrupt, innovate, solve a problem no one else is solving. ~ Warren Berger

A sequoia seedling is always a sequoia at every point along its path to becoming a towering tree. And so are you always an empowered, fulfilled woman on your way to even greater empowerment and fulfillment. ~ Ali Binazir

Although drinking to the point of becoming incapacitated is unwise and risky for anyone, the blame for rape must be put on the rapist who preys on a drunk woman, not a drunk woman who becomes prey. If my car is stolen after I've parked it with the door unlocked in a neighborhood known for car theft, a crime has been committed, and I have the right and expectation to report the crime to the police. No one would tell me that the thief is the one who deserves sympathy, and that apprehending him would ruin his life. No one would tell me I'm a terrible person for getting my car stolen, and that I deserve to have my car stolen. They would be right to question my judgment, but not the fact that a crime has been committed. But when it comes to rape, the victim's pre-rape actions are used to justify the crime. ~ Leora Tanenbaum

Being successful is not determined by the amount of money you make but by the amount of lives you affect and influence for the better. ~ Behdad Sami

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful. ~ Charles Dunstone

Even with all that fine living, that fire stayed with my mama. Caught her up in the night as a child and woke her sweating and screaming. That's why I don't buy it when people say children don't know. That they're too young to understand. If they can walk and talk, they can understand. You look at how much growing a baby does in the first few years of its life - crawling, walking, talking, laughing. The brain just changing and changing. You can't tell me all of it's not becoming a part of their blood. Their memory. ~ Jacqueline Woodson

And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success. ~ Andy Andrews

successful change transformations were more likely to set behavioral goals: ~ Chip Heath

The content defines the platform, so whereas when I was working at ABC from '66 to '76, people said it was the "great wasteland." It was the least-objectionable program that succeeded. It was, if you could get behind "All in the Family," you were successful. ~ Henry Blodget

I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists. ~ Dahlia Lithwick

Coquetry is the art of successful deception. ~ Louise Colet