Motivation & Success: Success Quotes

"I must have fame, no matter at what cost"

John Wilkes Booth, Criminal

"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate"

Thomas John Watson, Sr., Businessman

"I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character"

Arnold Palmer, Athlete

"Success is not just about making money or achieving your goals. It's about having a positive impact on the world and making a difference in people's lives"

George Gillett, Businessman

"Chart positions aren't the be all and end all"

Chris Lowe, Musician

"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great"

Ray Charles, Musician

"I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"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"

Thomas Kinkade, Artist

"Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did"

Curt Flood, Athlete

"People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there"

Bob Edwards, Journalist

"I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts"

Ralph Boston, Athlete

"Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move, then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success"

John McDonald, Leader

"When I meet successful people, I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people"

Kiana Tom, Model

"Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life"

Alex Noble, Writer

"I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous"

Shana Alexander, Journalist

"Success is not a place at which one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey"

Alex Noble, Writer

"I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure"

Jean Kerr, Playwright

"Success is not something that falls on your lap. You have to really pursue it and work for it"

Idris Elba, Actor

"Big thinking precedes great achievement"

Wilferd A. Peterson, Writer

"The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could"

Paul Hogan, Actor

"My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory"

Kelly Clarkson, Musician

"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success"

Charles O. Finley, Businessman

"Nothing succeeds like reports of success"

Sue Sanders, Activist

"Achievement results from work realizing ambition"

Adam Ant, Musician

"Success is the sweetest revenge"

Vanessa Williams, Musician

"You're only as good as your last record"

David Sanborn, Musician

"Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort"

Charles J. Givens, Businessman

"Success is dependent on effort"

Sophocles, Author

"Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Applause waits on success"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study, and practice"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

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