Top 100 Success Is Not Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Being inspired by a great personality is not enough. You have to take actions to succeed.
Debasish Mridha
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. First time success is not the assurance for second time success.
Amit Kalantri
#9. Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
Fernando Pessoa
#10. Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.
Drew Carey
#11. To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
Helen Keller
#12. 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
#13. Our body is the vehicle that we are given for our journey and if we do not take care of it, we will find ourselves broken down on the side of the road facing costly and time-consuming repairs.
John Patrick Hickey
#14. The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#15. My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Wynonna Judd
#16. Whoever said "Success is 80% Joy and 20% Hardwork" must have chased the latter 20% not ignoring the first 80%. Follow the Joy route and the power is already lost.
Priyavrat Thareja
#17. It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#18. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.
Mary Beth Chapman
#19. Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" If you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably engaged in the wrong line of work.
James C. Collins
#20. 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
#21. The value of your life is not measured in your success but your failures, your ability to fight, to make a better day for yourself is what you will remember in life's last challenge.
Westley Tusa
#22. Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
Bo Bennett
#24. 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
#25. The secret of politics is to care about success, but not too much.
Kenneth Minogue
#26. Barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up when they fall, retaining their optimism and sense of self, is a far greater predictor of future success than class position in Year 3.
Helen Fielding
#27. We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up. If you are not competitive, you do not succeed, you do not survive.
Frederick Lenz
#28. 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
#30. 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
#31. Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Bobby Knight
#32. Bravery is not the trait of a fearless person, lest the reckless actions of a fool be considered brave. Bravery is the quality that allows us to overcome our fears and succeed.
Gerard De Marigny
#33. The difference between Success and failure is not giving up.
Steven Redhead
#34. Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
Brian Tracy
#35. 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
#36. The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
Mother Teresa
#37. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
Orrin Woodward
#39. The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.
Maya Angelou
#40. Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Don Shula
#41. Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action - faithful action, for the world, and in God.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#42. The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.
Michael Josephson
#43. Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.
Debasish Mridha
#44. Success is not an adjective for a life. A person can only be successful at part of something not in all something.
Todd Stocker
#45. Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
Seth Godin
#46. The secret of success is to make your mind work for you - not against you. This means constantly being positive, constantly setting up challenges you can meet - either today, next week, or next month etc.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#47. The quality of a man is to be judged not by what he drives but by what drives him
Agona Apell
#48. Success does not happen all at once. In life, there is no instant pudding.
Donald Trump
#49. 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.
#50. The earth is not the same everywhere. Certain powers are available in one part of the earth that are not available in another part. The rich realize this. They live in these places and they use that power to stay rich.
Frederick Lenz
#51. Visionary', is what we call successful people who were wise enough to not listen when we called them delusional.
Steve Maraboli
#52. I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.
Steve Maraboli
#53. 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
#54. Gratitude is not just a word; it is a way a of life.
Rob Martin
#55. If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.
Sandra Bullock
#56. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.
Jane Austen
#57. The secret of success is doing things not merely because they are popular, but because you deeply believe in them.
Goswami Kriyananda
#58. I've tried lots of things. The reality is, I'm excited by everything on Day 1. And if by Day X things aren't working the way I hoped, I lose my passion. I have not seen the correlation between my passion and my success.
Scott Adams
#59. Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
Malik Bendjelloul
#61. Wisdom that is not acted upon is just philosophy ... but when lived as a verb, wisdom will be the foundation of your success.
Steve Maraboli
#62. Life was tough for me. When I was a kid, nobody played with me because they thought I looked ugly with my extra thumb. It pained me. So once I thought of getting it surgically removed. But I didn't. Slowly, I realized that the exterior is not the criterion for love and success.
Hrithik Roshan
#63. It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.
Nelson Mandela
#64. Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.
Jim Rohn
#65. You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.
Linda Evans
#66. Everything you desire is always just
outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already
possess it, would you not?
Chris Murray
#67. It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.
James Fenimore Cooper
#68. There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.
Orison Swett Marden
#69. Success is not an accident, it's a result of the choices we make based on things we believe in..
Jeremy Marcus Coatesoates
#70. In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.
David Friedman
#71. Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.
Frederick Lenz
#72. Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day?
M.F. Moonzajer
#73. My entire life, I've never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp.
Dan Pearce
#74. I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.
Lee Iacocca
#76. I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.
Craig Venter
#77. Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
Mignon McLaughlin
#78. The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.
Fran Tarkenton
#79. I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.
Rosie O'Donnell
#80. For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be a success. I don't. I just take the job because I love the character. Or I love the script. Maybe I love the director. But whatever I do, I never think about how it will do. That is not in my hands.
Kate Del Castillo
#81. Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.
Steve Maraboli
#82. He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
Stephen R. Covey
#83. 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
#85. Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.
Jim Rohn
#86. I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
George Bernard Shaw
#87. How much others love you is not very important, but how much you love yourself will define your success.
Debasish Mridha
#88. 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
#89. It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.
Angela Phillips
#91. The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.
John Ciardi
#92. If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do ... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.
George S. Patton Jr.
#93. Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
Alec-Tweedie
#94. I can be absolutely assured that any endeavor of which God is not a part is most certainly a step backward. And any step backward is at least two steps behind where I'd be if I'd have gone forward in the first place.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#95. I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
Hale Irwin
#96. 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
#97. It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
Terry Pratchett
#98. On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success, to hear the victorious screams of the incompetent!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. 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
#100. There is something special about baseball that goes far deeper than being a game. It is the father-son relationship that is built, the life lessons that are taught in the process of playing a game and the ability to overcome not succeeding all of the time and still considering yourself a success.
JohnA Passaro
