Quotes About Earned Success

#1. The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

Arthur C. Brooks

#2. It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is set up for people who value delayed gratification and who like hard-earned success.

Anthony Famiglietti

#3. If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.

Timothy Keller

#4. success is not always measured in terms of dollars earned or turnover. It is measured in terms of the difference you have made to the people around you.

Ravi Subramanian

#5. Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

James E. Faust

#6. And through it all was the pervasive sound of money. Money lost. Money found. Spent. Earned. Exchanged. Gambled. Wasted. Tainted lucre, wealth corrupted by those who found success on the suffering of others.

S.G. Night

#7. I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.

George M. Gilbert

#8. If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned.

Robert Kiyosaki

#9. No one "deserves" success; it is either earned with hard work or lost to the hands of fate.

Sanhita Baruah

#10. Success is not something that must be deserved or earned. It is more an inherent right - an inherent responsibility. The only qualification for success is that you be you, that you utilize whatever combination of talent you possess to the fullest extent possible.

Og Mandino

#11. The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.

Deepak Chopra

#12. Rewards are not simply given, they are earned. Each of your trials and tribulations increases your reward. You are destined for success and greatness beyond measure. So smile to increase your endurance and laugh in the face of adversity.

Carlos Wallace

#13. It's hard to appreciate success in modeling, because it's not something you feel like you've earned, so there is a little bit of bread of shame that comes with that. It's like somebody giving you a puzzle that's already put together.

Ashton Kutcher

#14. There are smart ways to success but no short cuts. Becoming successful is a process, and it's important that one moves through all the required steps. One cannot buy or bribe one's way to success; it needs to be earned.

Vishwas Chavan

#15. If our thoughts and beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - are in conflict, they will cancel each other out and nothing will manifest. So if you desire success but believe you have not earned it, you will not succeed.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#16. Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Luigi Pirandello

#17. Nobody roots for people who presume success. You have to earn success, and success is earned by making a movie that audiences like and want to see more of.

Nina Jacobson

#18. Meaning is not creating a cool place to work with free food, Ping-Pong, volleyball, and dogs. Meaning is making the world a better place.

Guy Kawasaki

#19. Buford didn't dress for respect, he earned it. He didn't try to get his name in the newspapers, instead he led with deeds that caused his men to follow his guidon with confidence and the full expectation of success.

Eric J. Wittenberg

#20. Success is never deserved. Success is always earned.

Robin Sharma

#21. Success is not an entitlement. It has to be earned

Howard Schultz

#22. The Gift belongs to whoever chooses to accept it. It is enough to believe and not to be afraid to make a few mistakes.

Paulo Coelho

#23. What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, every household in America by 20 percent. And we'll have to broaden the base to pay for that. Also, a very deep cut in the corporate rate.

Glenn Hubbard

#24. Most people inherit success and fame; if you have earned it piece by piece you will know how hard it is.

M.F. Moonzajer

#25. Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs.

Gregory Hines

#26. You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.

Lorii Myers

#27. This is your success and this is the magic hour, the golden time before the time. Just be in it. You earned it. Don't spread it and don't pull on it and don't push it and don't share it and don't examine it. This is it.

Caroline Kepnes

#28. Success is something that has to be earned every day.

Howard Schultz

#29. When it comes to success in business, an MBA degree is optional. But a GSD, which is only earned by Getting Stuff Done, is required.

Christine Comaford-Lynch

#30. Winners in life visualize their success and look forward to reaping and enjoying the rewards of their accomplishments. They revel in their hard-earned victory, and that reinforces their superior level of self-confidence.

Lorii Myers

#31. In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

David Brooks

#32. I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success - I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.

Steve Jobs