Success Quotes (2131)
Quotes and citations about success
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
By : Bob Balaban
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
By : James M. Baldwin
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
By : Honore de Balzac
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
By : Albert Bandura
Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness.
By : Harry F. Banks
It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do.
By : Christine Baranski
I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.
By : Robert Barany
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
By : Joseph Barbera
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.
By : Joel A. Barker
The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.
By : Jim Barksdale
We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.
By : Neal Barnard
I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends
By : Drew Barrymore
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
By : Ethel Barrymore
I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
By : Maria Bartiromo
I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.
By : Maria Bartiromo
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
By : Bruce Barton
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
By : Bernard Baruch
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
By : Bernard Baruch
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
By : Mikhail Baryshnikov
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
By : Abu Bakar Bashir
These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives.
By : Charles Foster Bass
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
By : Shirley Bassey
It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
By : Shirley Bassey
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
By : Vicki Baum
In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
By : Les Baxter
I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.
By : Michael Bay
Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.
By : Evan Bayh
We should be proud of liberating the 26 million people in Iraq and should remember that this is why it is important to stick it out to it's successful conclusion.
By : Evan Bayh
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.
By : Melissa Bean
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
By : Warren Beatty
And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
By : Warren Beatty
When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
By : Glenn Beck
Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
By : Glenn Beck
No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
By : Glenn Beck
At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.
By : Franz Beckenbauer
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!
By : Kate Beckinsale