Top 100 Success Not Quotes
#1. As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.
Mark Dever
#3. I am a great success, not because of what I have, but because, through service, I found enduring happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#4. 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
#5. Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.
David Letterman
#6. Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#7. Whatever you expect, you will get. So expect success, not regret.
Debasish Mridha
#8. This age is interested in success, not suffering ... Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about doing good.
Billy Graham
#9. I thought you'd say something like, what a louse! He did it because he thought what was important was success, not discovery.
Anonymous
#10. Think on blessings and not curses, beauty not ugliness, health not sickness. Meditate on wealth not poverty, success not failure, grace not disgrace!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#11. Nothing is worth your integrity. Not success, not money, not fame. Nothing.
Ryan Hall
#12. 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
#13. Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.
Malcolm Gladwell
#14. In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins.
Richard Matheson
#15. I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
Fernando Pessoa
#16. This is how you discover who someone is. Not the success. Not the result. The struggle. The part between the beginning and the ending that is the truth of life.
Elan Mastai
#17. My goal with every show we put on Geek & Sundry is to make it that big of a success, not just within the video but within fandom itself.
Felicia Day
#18. Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
Warren Buffett
#19. There is no failure unless you quit. Only success not yet won.
~Haghuf, in Power of the Dance
Jaq D. Hawkins
#20. happiness is the precursor to success, not merely the result. And that happiness and optimism actually fuel performance and achievement - giving us the competitive edge that I call the Happiness Advantage.
Shawn Achor
#21. At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?
Alberto Gonzales
#23. The result of all this turmoil is that product excellence is now paramount to business success - not control of information, not a stranglehold on distribution, not overwhelming marketing power (although these are still important).
Eric Schmidt
#24. Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#25. It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.
Robbie Williams
#26. Not success. Not growth. Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life ... is death.
Stephen Jenkinson
#27. Self-acceptanc e leads to success, not the other way around.
Deepak Chopra
#28. Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray aright is never to fail.
A.C. Dixon
#29. Profit is a by-product of success, focus on success not on profit.
Firoz Thairinil
#30. 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
#32. History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.
Scott Berkun
#33. Scars are the medals of success, not the glitters or the gold.
Debasish Mridha
#34. The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.
Henry David Thoreau
#35. It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers
J.K. Rowling
#36. Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure
Napoleon Hill
#37. People are only proud of your achievements and success not your struggles.
M.F. Moonzajer
#38. I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not ... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.
Gary David Goldberg
#39. Starbucks considers a product's success not only in terms of consumer acceptance but also in terms of employee
Fast Company
#40. American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we've never known what to do with this part of the Bible. The more we succeed, the more we're seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
Bill Vaughan
#41. 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
#42. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!
Eric Thomas
#48. Being inspired by a great personality is not enough. You have to take actions to succeed.
Debasish Mridha
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. First time success is not the assurance for second time success.
Amit Kalantri
#52. I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success - I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.
Steve Jobs
#53. You may not be the smartest, or the fastest, or the most talented. But you CAN work the hardest.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Being successful and fulfilling your lifes purpose are not at all the same thing; You can reach all your personal goals, become a raving success by the worlds standard and still miss your purpose in this life.
Rick Warren
#57. it's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process,
Jon Gordon
#58. To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not staying resilient.
Meghan Wier
#60. Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.
Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable.
Rosen Topuzov
#61. To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
Helen Keller
#62. You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.
Tony Robbins
#63. 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
#64. buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others - and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.
Gary Keller
#65. Thinking and saying you are handicapable instead of handicapped will not change anything about your disease or illness. It will help you think more positively about it though.
Tom Cunningham
#66. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.
Paul Clitheroe
#67. 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
#68. Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running.
Amby Burfoot
#69. 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
#70. The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes
David Allen
#74. It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Your opponents do not want you to persevere;
they are afraid you will succeed.
Your allies want you to persevere;
they will benefit from your success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
Bo Bennett
#82. 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
#83. The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
Andrew Carnegie
#84. 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
#85. The secret of politics is to care about success, but not too much.
Kenneth Minogue
#86. 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
#87. Hey, just be grateful I'm old. When an Arcadian first starts time-walking, we only have about a three percent chance of success. I once ended up on Pluto. (Sebastian) Are you serious? (Channon) They're not kidding about it being the coldest planet. (Sebastian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.
Meryl Streep
#93. 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
#94. We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.
Honore De Balzac
#95. Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Bobby Knight
#96. 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
#97. The difference between Success and failure is not giving up.
Steven Redhead
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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