Top 100 Success Quotes

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .

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By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting ...4

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

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I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

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They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.

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If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

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One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.10

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

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I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

12

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

13

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

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I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.

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What will matter is not your success but your significance.

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

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The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

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Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

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It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

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Those who truly have the spirit of champions are never wholly happy with an easy win. Half the satisfaction stems from knowing that it was the time and the effort you invested that led to your high achievement.

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Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.

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Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

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Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

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It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

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When you're ready to quit, you are closer than you think

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Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.

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Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.

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Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

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The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.

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If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

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Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

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The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

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We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

40

It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.

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Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

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I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

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The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I call it the torture routine. Because it's like forced torture. Torturing my body. What helps me is to think of this pain as pleasure. Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. And so when I am experiencing pain I'm in heaven. It's great. People suggest this is masochistic. But they're wrong. I like pain for a particular reason. I don't like needle's stuck in my arm. But I do like the pain that is necessary to be a champion.

45

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

46

Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.

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Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.

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Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

50

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

51

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

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I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.

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There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

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It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

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Create your legacy, and pass the baton.

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It's blood, sweat, sometimes tears.

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

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The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.

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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

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The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

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One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

62

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

63

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

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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.

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It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared for it." I do not think that this is strictly true, for I occasionally sounded not a few naturalists, and never happened to come across a single one who seemed to doubt about the permanence of species.

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99 percent of success is built on failure.

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Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

68

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

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If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.

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I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.

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Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

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I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

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Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.

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When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

77

The doorway to success cannot be opened with a key, but rather a combination

78

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

79

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

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Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.

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Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

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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.

83

This is an an abundant universe. Grasp your birthright. Success is a massive abundance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

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Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess, but if you stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.

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Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

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Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

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Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.

89

The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.

90

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

91

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

92

When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.

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I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

94

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

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Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.

96

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

97

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

98

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

99

If you really want to succeed, you'll have to go for it every day like I do. The big time isn't for slackers. Keep up your mental stamina and remain curious. I think that bored people are unintelligent people.

100

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

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