Becoming Successful Quotes

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

  Harvey Mackay

  Success, Determination, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from May 07, 2014

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

  Farrah Gray

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Dr. Farrah Gray from May 27, 2014

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• The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016

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• When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

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• Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 31, 2012

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• The road to success is always under construction.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Inspiring, Success

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• If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.

  Jon Jones

  Motivational, Successful, People

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• Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.

  Phil Donahue

  Success, Cat, Animal

  Phil Donahue (1986). “The Human Animal”, Touchstone

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• Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.

  Napoleon Hill

  Successful, Men, Thinking

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• Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Successful, People

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• I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Successful, Fame, Sat

  "Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston Interview - MARLEY AND ME". Press conference, collider.com. December 23, 2008.

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• That's how you become successful, man - you gotta stay busy.

  Tyga

  Successful, Men, Busy

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.

  Ross Perot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Before you become successful, you have to fall down on your face.

  Paul Coffey

  Fall, Successful, Faces

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• Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.

  Denis Waitley

  Successful, Pie, Numbers

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• We can become great in the eyes of others, but we'll never become successful when we compromise our character and show disloyalty toward friends or teammates. The reverse is also true: No individual or team will become great without loyalty.

  John Wooden

  Loyalty, Team, Character

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you want to catch a cold, hang out with sick people. If you want to lose, associate with losers. But if you want to become successful, go out of your way to associate with successful people.

  Thomas J. Stanley

  Successful, People, Sick

  Thomas J. Stanley (2005). “Millionaire Women Next Door: The Many Journeys of Successful American Businesswomen”, p.243, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• When you become successful and a depression or any other unfavorable circumstance arises which causes you a loss or defeat, act on the self-motivator: Success is achieved by those who try and maintained by those who keep trying with a positive mental attitude. This is the way to avoid being crushed.

  W. Clement Stone

  Attitude, Successful, Loss

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

  Steve Coogan

  Successful, Culture, Privacy

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• When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

  Glenn Beck

  Business, Father, Successful

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• Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized.

  Luis Fortuno

  Children, Successful, Opportunity

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• I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.

  Richard Stallman

  Successful, Thinking, Justice

  "Free Software as a Social Movement". ZNet Article, zcomm.org. December 18, 2005.

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