Top 100 Quotes About Not Success
#1. Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Thornton Wilder
#2. Do not be feverish about success, if your aim is clear and you have patience to move towards it, nature will support you.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#3. You can write and visualize goals all you want, but if you do not take action, your goals will never become a reality. To obtain a goal you have never before achieved will require tasks you have never before done.
Cameron C. Taylor
#4. When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts ... But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen
#5. Moreover, if we could show, on general logical grounds, that the scientific quest is likely to succeed, one could not understand why anything like success has been so rare in the long history of human endeavours to know more about our world.
Karl R. Popper
#6. I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
Harrison Ford
#7. Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.
David Brier
#8. The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.
Roy Wilkins
#9. A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.
Steve Harvey
#10. Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Bobby Knight
#11. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
Orrin Woodward
#12. Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow.
Ron Brown
#13. Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.
Robert Dallek
#14. Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
Seth Godin
#15. I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.
Charissa Thompson
#16. Success does not happen all at once. In life, there is no instant pudding.
Donald Trump
#17. It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I was having a blast. I was working on shows I loved, I was working with actors I loved, and I was making a living as an actor. And I loved every second of it.
Christina Hendricks
#18. Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an agency to interrupt others.
David Meerman Scott
#19. Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.
Peter Guber
#20. The umbrella won't stop the rain, but it will help you to get out during rainfall. As well as confidence is not going to guarantee your success, but it will give you the opportunity to achieve it.
Eyden I.
#21. Visionary', is what we call successful people who were wise enough to not listen when we called them delusional.
Steve Maraboli
#22. Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.
Albert Einstein
#23. He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.
James Jones
#24. Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
Malik Bendjelloul
#25. Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Wayne W. Dyer
#26. Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.
Napoleon Hill
#27. The mission has not yet run its course. Don't limit your actions in pursuit of success. Take a measured course and a wide berth within your lines of operation. Show us all what you are capable of.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#28. I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.
Alyson Stoner
#29. Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.
John C. Maxwell
#30. When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.
Andy Granatelli
#31. Success is not an accident, it's a result of the choices we make based on things we believe in..
Jeremy Marcus Coatesoates
#32. If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.
Madonna Ciccone
#33. The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was about individualism and the opportunity to achieve success without interference from others.
Robert Ringer
#35. Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Mary Kay Ash
#36. Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#38. To be a success, follow your love but not the process.
Debasish Mridha
#39. Knowing not the value of time, you will know no success.
A. Spencer
#40. 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
#41. The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'
Ayn Rand
#43. I've come to realize that the difference in success or failure is not how you look, how you dress, or how you're educated. It's how you think !
Mac Anderson
#44. The pain when you fail is not to convince you to stop, but to be overcome so you can find success there and move on.
A.M. Sawyer
#45. Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.
Bud Wilkinson
#46. As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.
John Newton
#47. Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#48. In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy and the one true secret of social success: how to not drive everyone around you crazy.
William Poundstone
#49. Success is not always measured by what one becomes but often by what one overcomes.
Beverly Gandara
#50. You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.
Stella Adler
#51. We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us.
Guy Laliberte
#52. It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.
Washington Irving
#53. Atheism is not a conscious act of turning away from all gods. It is simply the final destination for those who think ... you will be pleased to discover that the sky does not fall down on your head ... if you still want to pray, you can (the success rate of your prayers is unlikely to change).
Guy P. Harrison
#54. If you are always looking for an impact, a legacy, and success, you will not take the time to care for the things that matter.
Michael S. Horton
#55. Success is not a pursuit ... but the result of obedience to the Divien and Natural laws of Life established by the Creator
Myles Munroe
#56. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Jim Rohn
#57. Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.
Sarah Lewis
#58. The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#59. I've never been jealous of anybody's success. I've been flummoxed by it because I don't understand it, but I'm not jealous of it.
Elton John
#60. In fact, when Warren Buffett was once asked about the key to success, he pointed to a stack of nearby books and said, "Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.
Warren Buffett
#61. In seeking success you must also seek fulfillment. Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be.
Elizabeth Dole
#62. 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
#64. I've seen so many beautiful curvy women gain success in hollywood and then wither into bobble headed stick figures in some grotesque attempt to fit a revolting hollywood trend. I like real women, not the broomsticks that Hollywood has been selling lately.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#66. The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
Mary McLeod Bethune
#67. I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.
Leo Tolstoy
#68. I do not concern myself with being unique, and I do not concern myself with success. I feel I just do and say what I am supposed to. I do not know where it comes from. I go where I am told, and I just allow whatever it is to come out.
Wayne Dyer
#69. Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out,
unless of course it had a very short life cycle.
Lorii Myers
#70. Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.
Susana Martinez
#71. Success is not measured by who you are , only by the perception of what others think you are
Brian A. Leslie
#72. Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.
Erik Weihenmayer
#73. Superior might does not guarantee success, especially in a war where political considerations dominate.
Richard H. Shultz Jr.
#74. Failure is not able to have what you planned for, you planning for 'F' and having 'A' is a failure.
Success is having what you do expect or planned, having 'F' when you planned for it is a success.
Miracle is having a success you dont planned for, it breaks the law.
Adelaja Precious
#75. The true measure of a person's character is how one handles one's failures, not successes.
Bill Courtney
#76. I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.
Harry Chapin
#77. The greatest risk is not taking any.
Tim Fargo
#78. It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
Roger Goodell
#79. We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!
William Petersen
#80. Book knowledge is not enough. Experiential knowledge is essential for success in life.
Debasish Mridha
#82. The biggest misconception about success is "you're lucky". It's not a coincidence, it takes hard work. Prayer without work is dead.
Anderecco
#83. Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.
Neal Asher
#84. We all get caught up in the process, especially when you have a wave of success. But to me, being creative is not about rehashing everything you've done over and over. It's to continue to grow, continue to get better.
Vince Gill
#85. The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of small, legitimate successes. By legitimate I mean such as are not accompanied by self-condemnation.
Sydney Thompson Dobell
#86. Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all
Thomas Kuhn
#87. If you accept failure as learning,
it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success.
Martin Zwilling
#88. 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
#89. Many people succeed when others do not believe in them. But rarely does a person succeed when he does not believe in himself.
Herb True
#91. A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support
Talib Kweli
#92. Success depends on our using, and not opposing ...
Thomas Troward
#93. It has not been a successful life.'
'No
it has only been a beautiful one.
Henry James
#94. Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.
Oprah Winfrey
#95. Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
#96. Your brilliant first flop was a raging success! Come on, let's get busy and on to the next!" She handed a notebook to Rosie Revere, who smiled at her aunt as it all became clear. Life might have its failures, but this was not it. The only true failure can come if you quit.
Andrea Beaty
#97. Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.
Theodore Roosevelt
#99. I demand the best. Sleep is forbidden. If you work for me, you have to roll how I roll. Im not really human. Im like a machine.
Puff Daddy
#100. I want to set people up for success, like a good diet plan. If I pick just one, it may not be the right one for you. That's why there are 500 shifts, so you can literally flip it open and have an easy starting point.
Elizabeth Rogers
