We wouldn't be successful if we didn't have independent thinkers who can argue and then resolve their arguments.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.

We start with the perfect experience and then work backward. That's how we're going to continue to be successful.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.

I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.

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

It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

Success is sometimes harder than failure, because when you are successful, people expect so much more out of you.

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

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

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

Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.

All the really successful, happy relationships that I know of, the people that are together are friends, anyways.

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

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

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

We have not been successful in deterring the growth or expansion of any terrorist group that we've been fighting.

I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

One has to be willing to face the fact that what has transpired in Iraq is not exactly a very successful exercise.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.

A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

I never allow of any difficulties. The great secret of being useful and successful is to admit of no difficulties.

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Luxembourg has a track record of being successful when it takes risks. You need to take on risks to be successful.

The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.

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

If we're going to be successful in taking on the billionaire class, we need a strong national grassroots movement.

I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue.

There are so many international musical connections here, in Amsterdam. And some of them are amazingly successful.

TV's a wonderful medium: this intimate way of observing how a successful family operates and deals with each other.

I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

In my experience, the more successful an idea is, the easier it is to fund it. In philanthropy, it's almost harder.

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