Success Measured Quotes

#1. I don't want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page.

Elena Ferrante

#2. With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

Francis Aungier

#3. It's folly to measure your success in money or fame. Success is measured only by your ability to say yes to these two questions: Did I do the work I needed to do? Did I give it everything I had?

Cheryl Strayed

#4. A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.

Paulo Coelho

#5. Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

James Cash Penney

#6. Just as the economic success of a company is measured only by the number of dollars in its bank account, not by the happiness of its employees, so the evolutionary success of a species is measured by the number of copies of its DNA.

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. In the world, success is measured in terms of legacy, what we leave behind. In God's kingdom, success is measured by what we send on ahead.

Ron Brackin

#8. Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

James Pike

#9. Nothing important in this world is measured by grades. Intelligence, character, integrity, success, happiness - do you want these things, or do you want to struggle with the arbitrary difference between an A minus and a B plus?

Ryan Quinn

#10. I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.

Jerry Moran

#11. Success may be measured by things (prosperity, property, positions, possessions) but GREATNESS (Leadership) can only be measured by PEOPLE.

Fela Durotoye

#12. The success of a businessperson can be measured by the problems she has successfully solved.

Betsy Z. Cohen

#13. Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.

Nicky Gumbel

#14. Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.

John C. Maxwell

#15. Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.

Eric Edmeades

#16. Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

Camille Paglia

#17. Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.

Robert M. Hensel

#18. Most people seem to believe that if a relationship doesn't last until death, it's a failure. But the only relationship that's truly a failure is one that lasts longe than it should. The success of a relationship should be measured by it's depth, not by it's lenght.

Neil Strauss

#19. 'Homeland' was a sensation out of the gate in 2011, gathering acclaim and sweeping up Emmys, and the reason such shows are so overrated is because, unlike with other forms of popular art, success in TV is measured almost purely by how obsessive we become.

Steve Erickson

#20. A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.

Sue Halpern

#21. We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.

Jerry Greenfield

#22. Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed

Booker T. Washington

#23. Ultimately, success is not measured by first-place prizes. It's measured by the road you have traveled: how you have dealt with the challenge and the stumbling blocks you've encountered along the way.

Nicole Haislett

#24. Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Orison Swett Marden

#25. The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.

James Heckman

#26. Success in the arts is not measured in money or fame. It is about reaching that inner sanctum where the purest form of artistry takes place.

Craig A. Hart

#27. I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

John F. Kennedy

#28. The four parts are the context of the project; the needs that the project is trying to meet; the vision of what success might look like; and finally what the outcome will be, in terms of how the organization will adopt the results and how its effects will be measured down the line.

Max Shron

#29. The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success

Ian Fleming

#30. J.J. and I came from a world where success was measured by how many degrees you had. J.J.'s employees came from a world where it was measured by the size of your subwoofer.

Paul Jury

#31. Success is best measured by the achiever.

Joe Paterno

#32. This is not what you call courage?" "The difference between courage and stupidity is measured only by success and survival," he answered. "So ask me again when we're back topside.

Evan Currie

#33. Success will be measured at the end of your career, not at the peak. When you're finished with baseball, if you love God, if you're still in love with your wife, if your children know who you are, and if your reputation is still intact, then you'll be successful.

Tommy Newberry

#34. Nor did I share the anxiety with which each one measured up his chances of success.
The subjects taught at the lycee did not inspire me in the least. I worked for working's sake. I endured them.

Joseph Zobel

#35. The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

Masashi Kishimoto

#36. Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

H.G.Wells

#37. Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others.

Richard Branson

#38. Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

John Smith

#39. The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#40. And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.

Clay Aiken

#41. Success is measured not in how much we accomplish, but in how much we overcome.

Mary Whyte

#42. Real success or victory is measured by the quality of that very process of attention and mindful involvement, practice, and commitment.

Chungliang Al Huang

#43. Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

Tim Gunn

#44. Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time.

Joyce Hall

#45. In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others.

Greg Reid

#46. My parenting success is measured in the two inches my child raises his chin, upon hearing me speak of him.

Garry Fitchett

#47. SUCCESS does not mean an absence of problems, it is overcoming problems. Success is not measured by how high we go up in life, but how many times we bounce back when we fall down.

Shiv Khera

#48. Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals

Spencer W. Kimball

#49. Success is not measured by who gets credit. Success is measured by what gets done.

Connie Morella

#50. Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amout of hard work that is put into it.

Calvin Coolidge

#51. Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God.

James Bryant Conant

#52. Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

Zig Ziglar

#53. Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#54. Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don't sell a lot. But they're both great.

Po Bronson

#55. Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

Ethan Hawke

#56. Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn't. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work?

Robert A. Glover

#57. Success is not measured by who you are , only by the perception of what others think you are

Brian A. Leslie

#58. Success will not be yours unless you measure your dream. And guess what? Once you have measured it, people will say it's too big for you. That's when you can say, 'That's not true, it's so small it even fits in my head'.

Francisco Leon

#59. Progress must not become progressivism, where success is measured only by achieving pragmatic results.

Mal Fletcher

#60. Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

Booker T. Washington

#61. Success is measured by the journey, not by the result.

Norman Morrow

#62. Success need not always be measured in economic terms. It has to be measured in quality of life.

Sadghuru

#63. Success is not always measured by what one becomes but often by what one overcomes.

Beverly Gandara

#64. Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled ...

Mavis Gallant

#65. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

#66. Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

Joseph Joubert

#67. 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

#68. I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Charles Kuralt

#69. Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.

Billy Graham

#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. Success is measured by the memories you create.

Thomas Keller

#72. That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

Kara Goucher

#73. Trade the dream of overnight success for slow, measured growth. It's hard, but you have to be patient. You have to grind it out. You have to do it for a long time before the right people notice.

Jason Fried

#74. The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

Earl Warren

#75. 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

#76. People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.

Stanley Fish

#77. UNDAUNTED PURSUIT
Success, however measured, is the seat of a stool with three legs of determination, focus and resilience

Kamil Ali

#78. By persistent hard work you will rise to success, but ultimately your accomplishments will be measured by how you treated your loved ones on the way up.

Wes Fesler

#79. My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

Graham Norton

#80. I kind of have this sense of mission now when we talk about success: I'd really like Whole Foods to contribute to the healing of America, and the success of that may be measured in decades rather than in months, but I think we're on the way to doing it.

John Mackey

#81. I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.

Rick Renzi

#82. My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I'm telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.

Aaron Huey

#83. In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.

Clayton Christensen

#84. If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

Millicent Fawcett

#85. Our success in life should be measured by the level of change you impart on the lives of the needy not by the amount of wealth you acquire".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#86. Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#87. Success is measured by personal happiness.

Usher

#88. In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Jessamyn West

#89. Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.

Danny Villanueva

#90. This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all things: the power of intuition and the ability to harness and use it like a master.

Garry Kasparov

#91. I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

John F. Akers

#92. In his mind progress was always to be measured in inches, especially when you didn't have yards or even feet of success to show off.

David Baldacci

#93. What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.

Mike Schmoker

#94. The success of a civilization is measured not just in its aesthetic achievements but also, and surely more importantly, in the duration and quality of life of its citizens.

Niall Ferguson

#95. Leaders are never measured by their success but rather by the success of those they've been entrusted to lead. Therefore, a leader can never be considered successful until those they lead are successful.

Greg Cagle

#96. Success is too often measured by the size of one's bank account or the degree of their celebrity. Yet, neither can truly represent the size of one's character or the depth of their soul.

Charles F. Glassman

#97. Your success can't be measured by anyone else. You have to set your own goals and do what gives you a sense of fulfillment.

Rhondra O. Willis

#98. Success is only measured in terms of JOY

Esther Hicks

#99. If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

Robert T. Bakker

#100. Character is not measured by moments of success; it is measured by the grace in which you move through adversity. ~ Stefan Nelek

Jennifer Turner