Being Successful Quotes - Page 40

• It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wise, Believe, Successful

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• I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Humility, Successful

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

  Booker T. Washington

  Successful, Thinking, Order

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.311, University of Illinois Press

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• God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

  Mother Teresa

  God, Faith, Successful

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• If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

  Alain de Botton

  Successful, Incentives, Littles

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• To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.

  Mike Kafka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Success, Hard Work, Passion

  The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• If you fully believe you will be successful and can visualize yourself being successful, you will succeed

  Tom Platz

  Strength, Believe, Successful

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• What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. You don't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never be successful in it.

  Lee Iacocca

  Jobs, Business, Work

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• To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can't guarantee it just by following someone else's formula.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Business, Team

  Sir Richard Branson (2011). “Losing My Virginity”, p.270, Random House

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• If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.

  Eric Thomas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Success, Optimistic

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• No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 14, 2013

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• To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Motivational, Positive Thinking, Successful

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• For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Success, Learning

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.24, Bantam

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• Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.

  Brian Tracy

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Failure

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 23, 2014

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• If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Art, Successful

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• If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

  Brian Tracy

  Happiness, Successful, Disappointed

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 30, 2012

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• The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

  Leontyne Price

  Life, Success, Time

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• You cannot be successful without passion. If you don't love what you're doing, if you don't have passion for it - forget it. Do something else. You'll be much more successful and you'll lead a lot happier life.

  Donald Trump

  Sports, Passion, Successful

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• Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

  Susan Polgar

  Successful, Choices, Needs

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• I’m just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can’t be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f-king feminist and wear a f-king Peter Pan collar. So f-king what?

  Zooey Deschanel

  Kings, Believe, Successful

  "5 of Our Favorite Things Zooey Deschanel (Glamour's February Cover Star!) Shared With Us". www.glamour.com. January 2, 2013.

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• I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

  Bryan Adams

  Stars, Jobs, Successful

  Bryan Adams (1995). “Bryan Adams”, Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Book

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• You can have ambition
  But not too much
  You should aim to be successful
  But not too successful
  Otherwise you will threaten the man

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Ambition, Successful, Men

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.15, Vintage

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