A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley

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

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.
Andre Malraux

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.
Jerry Gillies

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.
Don Henley

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
B. R. Ambedkar

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone

The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Robert Half

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.
Oliver Goldsmith

We've been probably to some degree too successful.
Karl Rove

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Alexander Chase

If you never give up, you'll be successful.
Dan O'Brien

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.
Christine McVie

In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful.
Leo Bogart

And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
Eddie Murray

We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.
Thuy Trang

Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.
Ariel Sharon

To be successful, one must take chances.
Willie Stargell

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.
Mark Spitz