Top 20 Famous Quotes by Most Successful People
1. “Nothing
can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
-Thomas
Jefferson
2. “The
third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate
mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind
is only happy when it is thinking.
-A.
A. Milne
3. “Success
is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as
by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
-Booker
T. Washington
4. “Courage
is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is
more important than fear.”
-Ambrose
Redmoon
5. “If
there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other
person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from
your own.”
-Henry
Ford
6. “Do
no seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.”
-Basho
7. “Too
many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to
impress people they don’t like.”
-Will
Smith
8. “If
you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison
us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
-William
Shakespeare
9. “If
you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
-Henry
Ford
10. “I
do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
–Galileo Galilei
11. “What
we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little
consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”
-John
Ruskin
12. “The
instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free.
First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to
poison you. If this fails, they finish by loading honors on your head.”
-Jean
Cocteau
13. “I’ve
learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
-Maya
Angelou
14. “From
the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with
laughter. Someday I intend reading it.”
-Groucho
Marx
15. “The
longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all
the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my
time.”
-George
Bernard Shaw
16. “People
often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
-Zig
Ziglar
17. “You
can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
-Abraham
Lincoln
18. “Never
argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat
you with experience.”
-Mark
Twain
19. “Sometimes
you have to move on without certain people. If they’re meant to be in your
life, they’ll catch up.”
-Mandy
Hale
20. “You
found out who you are and what you want and then you realized that people you've known forever don’t see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful
memories, but find yourself moving on.”
-Nicholas
Sparks
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