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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value

  Myles Munroe

  Successful, Self Improvement, Want

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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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• Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 26, 2014

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

  Anthony de Mello

  Children, Powerful, Ambition

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.73, Image

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• I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.

  Rob Zombie

  Stars, Successful, Winning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.

  Bill Watterson

  Memories, School, Successful

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• When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.

  Tom Cruise

  Successful, People, Type

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Perseverance, Successful, Agents

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