Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
Alain de Botton

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

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
Margaret J. Wheatley

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.
Bob Newhart

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
Bryan Adams

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Hannah Arendt

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
Roger Babson

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Bernard Baruch

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.
Drew Carey

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

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

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
Ben Stein

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
Edith Piaf

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
Nicholas Sparks

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.
Nicholas Sparks

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
James Thurber

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.
Martin Van Buren