Top 100 Success Quotes

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Fear of failure leads to failure.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.2

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

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Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

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To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.

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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

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To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.

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Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

9

You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.

10

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.

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I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.

12

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

13

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

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All success in life, whether material or spiritual, starts with the thoughts that you put into your mind every second of every minute of every day. Your outer world reflects the state of your inner world. By controlling the thoughts that you think and the way you respond to the events of your life, you begin to control your destiny.

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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

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Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle!

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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

20

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success

21

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

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Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People ...23

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

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There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you've mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!

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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

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Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

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Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.

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If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

31

The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.

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Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

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Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.

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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

37

I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.

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If we're going to conquer our opponents, we must first conquer our own fears.

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When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.

40

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

41

There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."

42

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

43

I'll be back always sounded a little girly to me.

44

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

45

The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

46

I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.

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Andrew Cuomo own story taught Andrew Cuomo that as Americans, we are bound together as one people, and our country's success rests on the success of all of us, not just a fortunate few.

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

51

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

52

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

53

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

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I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

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Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

58

The Frankfurt Galaxy( The NFL Europe team) always had tremendous success, at that time there were 2,000 American football clubs in Europe playing the game from juniors through to adults.

59

If I can lead a happy life, touch the lives of others in a positive way, win the respect of those that I care about... and make a few million along the way, then I have been successful.

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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

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Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.

62

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

64

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

65

Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you've got to guard your reputation - every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That's why I don't clown around. I don't believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.

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Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

67

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

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I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.

69

One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.

70

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

71

The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.

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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

73

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

74

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

75

The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its exertion, but in that it has a reason and a law. For men of the first class, nature is a picture; for men of the second class, it is an opportunity; for men of the third class, it is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. These are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn.

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Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

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If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

78

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

79

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

80

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

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Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.

83

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

85

Confidence is everything. From there, it's a small step to winning.

86

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

87

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

88

Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.

89

The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night.

90

This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.

91

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

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Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.

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Achievement is its own reward

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Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

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Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, "That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible."

96

Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.

97

It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

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As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

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Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

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