Top 100 Quotes About Not Success
#1. 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
#2. To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.
Hugh Jackman
#3. The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.
Michael Horton
#4. You don't have to choose, Hannah. It's not success or fun. It's not life or love. You don't have to just pick one door to walk through. You can have both. It's okay. You just have to go out and do something about it. Don't sit back and let life happen to you. Go grab what you want, whatever it is.
Jessica Love
#5. If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.
T.D. Jakes
#7. Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
B.C. Forbes
#10. Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.
Frederick Lenz
#11. As an old man ... looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about ... is suffering, affliction.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#12. Persistent, Mike thought. Mark of those who succeed. Indeed, it was the mark of something, but not success. It was refusing to hear "no," a clear signal of trouble in any context. Forty
Gavin De Becker
#13. Pursuit of truth, not success, is the ultimate purpose of an illuminated life.
Debasish Mridha
#14. Football is easy; I've done this since I was a baby. To me, that's not success. Success to me is being a world changer ... I say football is my platform, not my purpose. How can I use my platform to fulfill my purpose? I want people to say that he fulfilled his purpose.
Brandon Marshall
#15. Nothing is worth your integrity. Not success, not money, not fame. Nothing.
Ryan Hall
#16. if plan A is not success you need to ready PLAN B but if plan B dozen work then try other bcz alphabet is more and more...
Sushil Singh
#17. You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
Magnus Scheving
#18. There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
Jim Hightower
#19. What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.
Paul Polman
#20. He never got caught up in the performance trap because He was called to a life of service, not success. Jesus was not in need of people's approval, which meant He was always able to pursue the purpose for which He was sent.
Charlotte Gambill
#21. Education is not success but it is to help us succeed.
T. B. Joshua
#22. The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
Akash Lal Karotia
#23. It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.
James Stockdale
#24. Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success.
Frank Davidson
#25. Our focus is our customers' success. At the end of the day, if your customers are successful, they will also be satisfied. But satisfaction is not success. In today's business environment, and certainly in tomorrow's, mistaking one for the other can be fatal.
Rob Bernshteyn
#26. If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen
#27. Love and gratitude are always the source of happiness, not success.
Debasish Mridha
#28. A beautiful idea can give you immortality - not success or money.
Debasish Mridha
#29. What's success? Having lots of money? No, this is part of the practicalities of life. It is not success. Success is having two daughters who grow into fine ladies, two boys who grow into fine gentlemen. Success is waking up next to the loved one dumbstruck at your luck of meeting them.
Carol Vorvain
#30. Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.
Neale Donald Walsch
#32. Not success. Not growth. Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life ... is death.
Stephen Jenkinson
#33. I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.
Ayn Rand
#34. The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.
Mark Batterson
#35. We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#36. More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.
Scott Walker
#37. There are no absolute rules when it comes to success. It is not a case of you either are one or you are not. Success is something everyone must measure for themselves. Success is making the most of what you have, and who you are. To the best of your abilities regardless of what others think or say.
J.W. Lord
#38. Pride is associated with failure, not success. We hear a great deal about the inferiority complex, but the superiority complex of pride is seldom spoken of ... The greatest act of humility ... was when Jesus Christ stooped to die on the cross of Calvary.
Billy Graham
#39. It also reflects a tendency in our society to focus on negatives. Doctors, for instance, study illness, not health. Business leaders analyse failure, not success. Economists study cost, not value. Philosophers mostly debate original sin, not original blessing.
Robert Holden
#40. Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.
Brandon Marshall
#41. If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#42. Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.
James Avery
#43. Sometimes, we must face our fears and our enemies on their ground, a place where they appear stronger but if we are well prepared, nothing can stop us. Their turf or not, success will be ours.
Idowu Koyenikan
#44. The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.
Brian Tracy
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Bobby Knight
#54. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
Orrin Woodward
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
Seth Godin
#58. 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
#59. Success does not happen all at once. In life, there is no instant pudding.
Donald Trump
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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.
#64. Visionary', is what we call successful people who were wise enough to not listen when we called them delusional.
Steve Maraboli
#65. 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
#66. He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.
James Jones
#67. Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
Malik Bendjelloul
#68. 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
#69. Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.
Napoleon Hill
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.
John C. Maxwell
#73. 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
#74. Success is not an accident, it's a result of the choices we make based on things we believe in..
Jeremy Marcus Coatesoates
#75. If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.
Madonna Ciccone
#76. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#81. To be a success, follow your love but not the process.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Knowing not the value of time, you will know no success.
A. Spencer
#83. 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
#84. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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.
#91. 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
#92. Success is not always measured by what one becomes but often by what one overcomes.
Beverly Gandara
#93. You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.
Stella Adler
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. Success is not a pursuit ... but the result of obedience to the Divien and Natural laws of Life established by the Creator
Myles Munroe
#99. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Jim Rohn
#100. 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