Top 100 Quotes About What Success Is
#1. I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
Charles Dudley Warner
#2. I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.
Spike Jonze
#3. How can you truly know what success is, if you've never experienced failure?
Chad Pennington
#4. Nobody's ever decided what success is, out here.
Leslie Ford
#5. I always say that you define what success is to yourself.
Lupe Fiasco
#6. Ensure everyone knows what success is and what their role is in achieving it.
James Kerr
#7. Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you.
Ornette Coleman
#8. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job,
Valeria Lukyanova
#9. I'm certainly not saying that my life is what success is all about. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.
Tony Robbins
#11. Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.
Lupe Fiasco
#12. You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success is all about. It's getting people you like, who want to take the hill with you, who want to win, who have the passion. This is not rocket science.
Jack Welch
#13. Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
Billy Corgan
#14. I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.
Joan Jett
#15. Now I know what success is: living your truth, sharing it.
Kamal Ravikant
#16. It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.
Lena Dunham
#17. If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
Lucinda Williams
#18. A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent looks at that baby and says 'Oh, you're so wonderful,' that baby just bursts with feeling good about themselves.
T. Berry Brazelton
#20. Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that could get in the way. But success is the best revenge, so build yourself up rather than knock others down.
Tavi Gevinson
#21. Accept your teammates for what they are and inspire them to become all they can be.
Robin Sharma
#22. In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
Abraham H. Maslow
#23. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK
Elie Jerome
#24. In order to be a success in life you have to be willing to take a chance. Its like putting a blindfold on and jumping off a cliff and hoping you'll land on something soft.
Ricky Star
#25. 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
#26. Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.
Auliq Ice
#27. I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#28. Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.
Allan Houston
#29. Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.
Kris Gopalakrishnan
#30. There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
Agnes Repplier
#31. Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.
Roger Federer
#33. We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.
Deena Kastor
#34. Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
Junot Diaz
#35. When Lafayette met him in 1775, the first volume of Raynal's 1770 History of the Two Indies had already been banned, which is to say it was a popular success, the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books being the unofficial bestseller list of the day.
Sarah Vowell
#36. Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
Bette Davis
#39. Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.
Ted Sundquist
#40. There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.
Rob Dyrdek
#41. I had less success in the courtyard. There only love and boyfriends counted.
Elena Ferrante
#42. As in all other places of resort, one type predominated: people in the prime of youth, with every show of intelligence and sensibility in their appearance, but with little promise of strength or the quality that makes success.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#43. No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
Susan B. Anthony
#44. I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.
Robin Hobb
#45. Nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.
Lynda Obst
#46. Pessimism is not good for the soul."
"I sold my soul years ago."
"To whom?"
"The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.
Jonathan Kellerman
#47. Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.
Danny Villanueva
#48. Money & success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Will Smith
#49. Cause channeled in the wrong direction is indistinguishable from handcap
Dr Lloyd Magangeni
#50. There is only one reason that you ever fail at anything ... and that is because you eventually change your mind. That's it! ... anything and everything you have ever decided to do, you have succeeded, or will succeed, at doing.
Victor L. Wooten
#51. If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.
Kamal Ravikant
#53. I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!
Eric Thomas
#54. At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#55. When it comes to making the right moves at the right time, your dance partner is life itself or what can be referred to as your destiny. The more you pay attention and practice intuitive decision making skills, the better you will become at sensing the unique rhythm of your life.
Paul O'Brien
#56. A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King
#57. The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
Naveen Jain
#58. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Mark W. Boyer
#59. Price and Cost. Sometimes we pay more. Sometimes we pay less. You've got to determine what you are willing to pay for success.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#61. Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.
Napoleon Hill
#62. Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
Albio Sires
#63. Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success.
Bryant McGill
#64. The key to SUCCESS is to START before you're ready
Marie Forleo
#65. Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth.
Brandi L. Bates
#66. When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.
M. Russell Ballard
#67. Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...
Assegid Habtewold
#68. Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
David Myers
#69. Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels ... that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.
J. Edgar Hoover
#70. Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can if make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!
Moss Hart
#72. Time, energy, and focus; these are the resources at your disposal each and every day.
Noel DeJesus
#74. I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.
Trevor Dunn
#76. The more optimistic you can be the more resilient you will be to whatever challenges life throws at you.
Auliq Ice
#77. You are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of creating and sustaining extraordinary health, wealth, happiness, love, and success in your life, as any other person on earth.
Hal Elrod
#78. Being inspired by a great personality is not enough. You have to take actions to succeed.
Debasish Mridha
#79. If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely.
Dalai Lama
#80. You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.
Eric Fellner
#81. 'One Tree Hill' was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.
Hilarie Burton
#82. If you want to be the best at anything (including the best version of yourself), you have to have systems in place for success. These systems are healthy habits!
Marco Borges
#83. My measure of success is whether I'm fulfilling my mission.
Robert Kiyosaki
#84. My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.
Carolyn Warner
#85. When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.
Anita Elberse
#86. What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to be fulfilled by your own success?
Archibald Marwizi
#88. Self-confidence and self-will are strength for sacred accomplishments.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#89. You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.
Israelmore Ayivor
#90. I've never practiced a profession and have lived like a sort of student. I consider this my greatest success, my life hasn't been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.
Emil Cioran
#91. According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.
Andre Sainte-Lague
#92. 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
#93. Our external results are merely a reflection of our internal reality.
Joan Posivy
#94. Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
Edward Weston
#96. Success is like toilet paper, it only seems important when you don't have it.
Richard Jeni
#97. No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
P. J. O'Rourke
#98. The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#99. First time success is not the assurance for second time success.
Amit Kalantri
#100. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
Lois Lowry
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