1,420 Quotes About Successful

Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, "Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?"

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

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

Weekly $25,000 shopping binges at Barney's and "high end" boutiques for clothes I barely wore were the norm. So were lavish meals with friends where I picked up $1000 tabs. These high-priced activities were within my limits because I was extremely successful financially, a testament to my manic behavior, not to mention my involvement in illegal activities.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people,