Top 100 Measure Success Quotes
#1. We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.
Henry Van Dyke
#2. Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
Damien Hirst
#3. You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.
Damien Hirst
#4. Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.
Sara Blecher
#5. To measure success with material things is failure!
Tony Robbins
#6. You always measure success by what you did last. It's hard to measure that because it's something that just comes. If someone can just make a hit, they would do it everyday. But you can't make a hit that you know is a hit every day.
Ginuwine
#7. I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead
#8. Don't allow one setback to define you. Your true self is beyond measure. Success is a marathon, not a sprint. Move on to where you flourish.
Assegid Habtewold
#9. College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.
Paul McAllister
#10. Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.
Marian Wright Edelman
#11. I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
L'Wren Scott
#12. You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.
Steffi Graf
#13. We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.
Barbara Hershey
#14. If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
Justin Long
#15. I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.
Warren Buffett
#16. In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is by how much joy it brings you, you're measuring inaccurately. Life is also sadness, defeat, striving. It is many things.
Mario Cuomo
#17. It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.
Gloria Steinem
#18. You measure success by how much good you do for others.
Zig Ziglar
#19. Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process.
Kevin Spacey
#20. It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.
Stephen Cambone
#21. It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
Bode Miller
#22. How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.
Bonnie Raitt
#23. How many people you bless is how you measure success
Rick Ross
#24. The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.
Adam Grant
#25. Learning to measure success by the energy, and happiness my endeavors bring me.
Alba Vales
#26. Instead, ourselves the beneficiaries of this kind of benign neglect, we now measure success as the extent to which we manage to keep our children monitored, tethered, tied to us.
Joan Didion
#27. I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead
#28. Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#29. We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working?
Paul Ryan
#30. I see women going anywhere they want to. And I do mean want to. Because a lot of people measure success merely by position, title and salary. I think women feel comfortable enough in their own skin to put that secondary to what they want. They don't have to define success by the measure of society.
Charlene Li
#31. I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.
Chuck Barris
#32. We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.
Kenneth Keniston
#33. My measure of success is whether I'm fulfilling my mission.
Robert Kiyosaki
#34. The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. The greatest measure of success is the amount of joy you experience.
Marie Cornelio
#36. The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda
#37. Measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. Warren Buffet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.
Pearl Zhu
#39. The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.
David Cottrell
#40. I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.
Drake
#41. As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.
Joseph Prince
#42. For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.
John F. Kennedy
#43. The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day.
Steven Weinberg
#44. The real measure of success is how one feels about being alive.
Marty Rubin
#45. Maybe that's all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn't. And when the day was done, the only measure of success was how happy you were, how much you loved and were loved.
Lisa Unger
#46. The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#47. In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.
Charles Tomlinson
#48. This thrilled Zuckerberg, whose primary measure of the service's success was how often users returned.
David Kirkpatrick
#49. The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
Pope John Paul II
#50. When you get to my age, you'll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That's the ultimate test of how you've lived your life.
Warren Buffett
#51. The American Dream became America's god; wealth and abundance have become the measure of America's success. But - as recent events have shown - we have been living an illusion.
Billy Graham
#52. The focus of pastoral leadership is so consistently on the people, in fact, that the spiritual condition of the flock is the only real measure of a leader's success.
Christopher A. Beeley
#53. Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.
Stella McCartney
#54. I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that's a measure of success.
Dean Kamen
#55. Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether ... it should be maintained or abolished.
Frederick Douglass
#56. The measure of our success will not be determined by how we act during the great times in our life but rather by how we think and respond to the challenges of our most difficult moments.
Jon Gordon
#57. ....a crucial measure of our success in life is the way we treat one another every day of our lives.
P. M. Forni
#58. We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.
Anna Quindlen
#59. We must teach our children that the real measure of their success in life is how much they'd be worth if they had absolutely nothing.
Walt Mueller
#60. So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory
and success.
George W. Bush
#61. Success will not be yours unless you measure your dream. And guess what? Once you have measured it, people will say it's too big for you. That's when you can say, 'That's not true, it's so small it even fits in my head'.
Francisco Leon
#62. Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.
Gloria Steinem
#63. There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.
James Allen
#64. The true measure of a person's character is how one handles one's failures, not successes.
Bill Courtney
#65. We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world.
Tim Brown
#66. Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.
Steve Maraboli
#67. The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year
John Foster Dulles
#68. Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.
Richard M. Weaver
#69. I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.
Cybill Shepherd
#70. We have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track.
Orson Scott Card
#71. Within half an hour almost all the women were drunk, a yardstick Laing had long used to measure the success of a party.
J.G. Ballard
#72. Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it.
Elmer Seward
#73. The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.
Wade Davis
#74. I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#75. What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.
Mike Schmoker
#76. I am acutely aware that all I have been able to achieve has been in large part due to circumstances outside my control. This is why I teach, and this is why I write. I want to be one of those opportunities for others. Perhaps this is the true measure of success.
Chris Matakas
#77. A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.
William Beckett
#79. For whatever we do in our lives, discipline and control over our own actions ultimately measure the level of our success.
R.A. Salvatore
#80. I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.
John Rhys-Davies
#81. How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.
Hyrum W. Smith
#82. Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
Charles Dudley Warner
#83. The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.
Edwin Way Teale
#84. I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.
Moby
#85. Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
Anna Pavlova
#86. The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
Walter Besant
#87. It wasn't until I'd met everyone else's measure of success that I realized I'd failed myself.
Rick Remender
#88. Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
Larry Hagman
#89. The measure of success is not by opulence but by happiness
Debasish Mridha
#90. My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I'm telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.
Aaron Huey
#91. The True measure of a person's success is to be a person of value.' I knew people of value, people who kept their promises, people who were kind, people who were loyal.
Marjorie Hart
#92. The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
Ban Ki-moon
#93. Any great art work ... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Leonard Bernstein
#94. You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
Isaac Asimov
#95. To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
Ban Ki-moon
#96. My measure of success is to walk into a restaurant and hear a table debating drug policy. Once the public start the conversation, the politicians will join - that is when we can create real change.
Sam Branson
#97. We don't measure our people's success in how they're doing in government. We measure how they are doing in the real world and the private sector economy.
Bobby Jindal
#98. Unlike Marvel, we are not setting up redundant organizations for expertise that exists. We will track all DC properties to measure financial success.
Diane Nelson
#99. Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#100. The culture and civilization of the White man are essentially material; his measure of success is, "How much property have I acquired for myself?" The culture of the Red man is fundamentally spiritual; his measure of success is, "How much service have I rendered to my people?
Ernest Thompson Seton
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