Wisdom for Success
SUCCESS IS …
“It is clear that the definition of success is different for everybody. If you want to achieve success, you have to define what it is for yourself.”
Aaron Peters
“Different strokes for different folks.” Enjoy this collection of quotes that presents a variety of ideas about what success is.
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1. “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” Joyce Brothers
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2. “Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.” Paul J. Meyer
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3. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” Pele
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4. “Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.” Tom Petty
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5. “Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.” Wilfred Peterson
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6. “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” Christopher Morley
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7. “What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.” Margaret Thatcher
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8. “Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.” Christopher Reeve
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9. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” John Wooden
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10. “Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.” Oliver Goldsmith
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11. “Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.” Audrey Hepburn
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12. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
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13. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” Dale Carnegie
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14. “If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” Maya Angelou
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15. “The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.” B. C. Forbes
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16. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” Jim Rohn
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17. “Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.” Orison Swett Marden
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18. “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.” Booker T. Washington
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19. “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” Edward Everett Hale
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20. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” George S. Patton
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21. “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” Bob Dylan
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22. “The secret of success is sincerity.” Jean Giraudoux
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23. “Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” Arnold H. Glasow
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24. “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” Swami Sivananda
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25. “Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” Arthur Ashe
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26. “Success is a man who has the love and trust of a woman, a job he likes, and an abiding sense of humor. Success is a man whose children love him and have made him proud of them. Success is a man who dies at home in his sleep after a good life.” David Brown
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27. “To freely bloom—that is my definition of success.” Gerry Spence
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28. “To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal is the secret of success. But success? What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one’s ideal.” Anna Pavlova
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29. “Success is having to worry about every damned thing in the world except money.” Johnny Cash
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30. “If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.” Will Rogers
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31. “What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.” Gene Fowler,
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32. “True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.” Paul Sweeney
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33. “Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.” David LaChapelle
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34. “The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.” Tony Dungy
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35. “Success is survival.” Leonard Cohen
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36. “I think that success is having fun.” Bruno Mars
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37. “For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something; it’s being happy with who you are.” Britney Spears
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38. “The most important thing is being passionate about what you’re doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.” Charlie White
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39. “Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.” Ralph Marston
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40. “Success isn’t about reaching your goals; it’s about striving for things, like the joy of trying to raise a family, trying to be a successful singer, trying to write good songs, trying to be a better person. It’s that old thing about life being about the journey, not the destination.” Jimmy Barnes
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41. “Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.” Sugar Ray Leonard
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42. “Real success is not, like, materialistic. It’s being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.” Lindsey Wixson
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43. “Success is doing what you love and loving people while you do it.” Anthony Ramos
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44. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” Bo Bennett
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45. “Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.” Zig Ziglar
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46. “Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.” Danny Thomas
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47. “I think success is a relative term. If you’re a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It’s exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect.” Jon Taffer
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48. “My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain – and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.” Tony Robbins
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49. “Success is a matter of one’s own feeling about oneself.” Edward James Olmos
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50. “Success is a great deodorant.” Elizabeth Taylor
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51. “How can they say my life isn’t a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?” Logan Pearsall Smith
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