Top 100 Success People Quotes
#1. Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
Denis Waitley
#2. [Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.
Ray Stevenson
#3. It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.
Ben Bernanke
#4. In success, people see only the product. But they do not know the details of the process.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. Successful people (or soon-to-be success people) never quit, never settle and are never satisfied
Nick Macri
#6. Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.
T. Harv Eker
#7. This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.
Kristen Stewart
#8. If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.
Sonia Sotomayor
#9. When you have success, people think you know what you're doing, and you start to agree with them, you think you can conquer the world. But you go from grandiosity to panic.
Janet Fitch
#10. Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
Henry Flynt
#11. Our biggest success lies in admitting to our failures and correcting them..A side of success people often miss..
Deal with this in the mental personal space..
Fast forward your momentum and thereby success..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#12. Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
Nate Ruess
#13. Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#14. I see L.A. as a workplace rather than somewhere to live. If I don't get out, I go crazy. If you have a little success, people treat you differently, so it's good to keep a healthy perspective. It's acting, not rocket science.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#15. There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.
Rob Dyrdek
#16. There are oceans of things to discover, to explore, to learn, to invent, to create in this world; especially with its modern possibilities offered. So, I don't understand when people complain they're bored and have nothing to do.
Sahara Sanders
#17. I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.
Stanley Kubrick
#18. Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.
G.R. Gopinath
#19. Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.
Orrin Woodward
#20. Life is full of possibilities and people should take an advantage of it to pursue success.
Saaif Alam
#21. People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry!
Israelmore Ayivor
#22. Trade the dream of overnight success for slow, measured growth. It's hard, but you have to be patient. You have to grind it out. You have to do it for a long time before the right people notice.
Jason Fried
#23. In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.
Steve Pavlina
#24. People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
Bayard Taylor
#25. The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.
Timothy Ferriss
#26. Don't be intimidated by people who try to belittle your ambitions. Most of the time they are just jealous of your success or determination to reach the highest peaks of the mountains, and reign over them.
Robert Cheeke
#27. I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.
Mac Davis
#28. People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.
Katy Perry
#29. OUR SUCCESS IN THIS MORTAL WORLD IS JUDGED BY HOW MANY PEOPLE WE HAVE FOOLED EACH DAY.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#30. People working on climate change should prepare for catastrophic success.
David Titley
#31. There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#32. Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.
Zig Ziglar
#33. No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.
Walt Disney
#34. Often, people relate success to what they have done and failure to what others have done to them.
T.G.C. Prasad
#35. Don't try to get even with those who wrong you, get ahead.
Mensah Oteh
#36. If you make good music, people believe in you, but you have to have your websites poppin', you got to be on these blogs, you got to be at all these types of events. You got to be everywhere, and doing everything, and the more they see and hear you, the more chance you have at success.
Jadakiss
#37. If my goals and victories can help the world remember Chernobyl and bring a smile to the face of the people still suffering then I dedicate all my success to them.
Andriy Shevchenko
#38. I remind myself how people with a low propensity for success whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success.
Keith Ferrazzi
#39. I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.
John Hodgman
#40. The success of family welfare depends on giving women complete freedom with their lives. The need of the hour is that people should plan their families as per their convenience and get the bare minimum health facilities
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
#41. That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
Mitt Romney
#42. I knew there would be no shortcuts for me in life-we didn't have money or access to people of power. I knew, if I was going to have any success, it would be a result of getting educated and working hard-as hard or harder than my parents did.
Megyn Kelly
#43. It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.
Karen Carpenter
#44. Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
Idries Shah
#45. I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
Barbara Walters
#46. The people that surround us mirror who we are.
Rob Martin
#47. Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I'd look like Eddie Constantine.
Tyrone Power
#48. Find creative ways to share the credit and pull people up the ladder of success along with you.
Frank Sonnenberg
#49. Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.
Ernest Holmes
#50. If people call your work perceptible, be it in positive or negative terms, do ask them about what made them draw that conclusion.
Mohith Agadi
#51. People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success
that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
Christy Carlson Romano
#52. It doesn't matter if thousands of people believe in you, unless You believe in You.
Maddy Malhotra
#53. You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.
Kenneth Langone
#54. Confidence is a life ingredient that is essential to success and wholeness. It is perhaps the single most important trait that enables seemingly average people to do and become all that they can. And the good news is - it can be learned. No one has to suffer a lifetime of low confidence.
Steve Goodier
#55. I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
Queen Elizabeth II
#56. If people are worried about unfair advancement, they should look at the sons-in-law of the world running companies. They've truly slept their way to the top.
Mary Cunningham Agee
#57. I am still the same girl. The only difference that success has brought about is the love and affection of the people.
Lara Dutta
#58. Most people inherit success and fame; if you have earned it piece by piece you will know how hard it is.
M.F. Moonzajer
#59. Confidence comes from within. You teach people how to perceive you, by your own example of how you perceive yourself. If you believe in yourself that confidence shines through and others will believe in you too.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#60. I have met Lionel Richie and Celine Dion. They were wonderful people. They proved no matter how much success you've got, you can be as normal as pie. I held it together. But when I met Halle Berry I went a bit wobbly, as I had a bit of a crush on her before I met Kate.
Peter Andre
#61. Don't grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.
Confucius
#62. Some people dream of success, others stay awake to achieve it.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#63. Make success happen by striving and working to be the best. Aim at excellence and hit the target.
Mark LaMoure
#64. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo..
Oprah Winfrey
#65. I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.
Jon Anderson
#66. Don't ever perceive other people's success as your own failure.
Rob Liano
#67. Be in love with what you do. Love wisdom. Love life. Love people. God is love.
Archibald Marwizi
#68. People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.
Joe Strummer
#69. Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.
Robert Anton Wilson
#70. Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn't. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work?
Robert A. Glover
#71. We need the wisdom to accept the fact that this world abounds with issues we cannot solve; and we need to part ways with those people, ideas and things that are a vexation to the soul.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#72. People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker.
Frederick Lenz
#73. Most people think the more money, luxury or fame they have, the more successful they are; but I think that the true sign of success depends on how many positive emotions they experience each day.
Maddy Malhotra
#74. The work that most people do in the world tends to deaden them, deadens their mind, uses up their energy and they get a paycheck and old age and not much energy. You get the check and they get your energy. That energy is translated into corporate dollars.
Frederick Lenz
#75. A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'
Arsene Wenger
#76. It is imperative for our mental health that we surround ourselves with like minded people.
Rob Martin
#77. You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.
Virginia Hamilton
#78. Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.
Warren Buffett
#79. Intimacy should not be given casually; there should be a price. And it shouldn't be negotiable.
Mensah Oteh
#80. Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life's nobleness.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#81. Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.
Peter Senge
#82. I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.
Spike Jonze
#83. When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
Christina Aguilera
#84. Often, people give up without knowing success was just around the corner; if they had only preserved a little longer, if they had only tried one more time, they could have succeed.
Ashley Ormon
#85. Set the tone for your day be treating people better than you expect to be treated by them. Be the first to smile. Express your appreciation for them. Expect the best out of them. If you act first, you will set yourself up for success.
John C. Maxwell
#86. Good manners is just being respectful of others. Whether you know them or not, you should show respect for all people.
John Patrick Hickey
#87. The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
Margaret Mead
#88. Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.
Harvey MacKay
#89. My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.
Lauryn Hill
#90. I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own.
Benjamin Stone
#91. The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people's lives.
Steven Weber
#92. I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and try to write great songs and then collaborate with these guys and try to make a great record, that's my best path to success.
Ed Robertson
#93. As long as you were comfortable with yourself and believed in yourself, then you could just throw out all that nonsense of worrying about your status and "success" and other people's opinions.
James Collins
#94. You must showcase your work, achievements and performance in the best possible manner.
Abhishek Ratna
#95. People are successful because they think and act like successful people.
Roy Bennett
#96. You have to love what you do. Without passion, great success is hard to come by. An entrepreneur will have tough times if he or she isn't passionate about what they're doing. People who love what they're doing don't give up. It's never even a consideration. It's a pretty simple formula.
Donald Trump
#97. I want people to know you can live a life that is less aggressive and still have success.
Sakyong Mipham
#98. There is a group of people who know very well where the weapons of automatic influence lie and employ them regularly and expertly to get what they want. They go from social encounter to social encounter requesting others to comply with their wishes; their frequency of success is dazzling.
Robert Cialdini
#100. Steroids do not guarantee you're going to have success. I think a lot of people think that they will, but they don't.
Tony Gwynn
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