Individuals carry their success or failure with them. It does not depend on outside conditions. — Ralph Waldo Trine
Success is measured by personal happiness. — Usher
A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends. — Robert Baden-Powell
Success on the outside indeed begins with success on the inside. — Rohit Sharma
The truest success is but the development of self. — Charles Atlas
Success is determined by your daily choices and habits — Rick Pitino
Success means using your knowledge and experience to satisfy yourself.
Significance means using your knowledge and experience to change the lives of others. — Bob Buford
Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together. — Paul Ryan
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success. — Denis Waitley
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. — Paul J. Meyer
Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride. — Vince Lombardi
Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge — Ivan Misner
Successful people who wish to maintain their successes must make the decision to do so. — Isaac Mashman
Individual Success Image Quotes
The planet does not need more "successful people". The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lover of all kinds.
What Is Success Quotes
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer
The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change. — Jesse Robredo
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. — Dale Carnegie
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. — Bob Dylan
Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is. — Fidel Castro
Success in science and scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful selection of problems and objectives. Above all, what is required is hard sustained work and dedication. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story. — Stephen Curry
Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next. — Condoleezza Rice
Doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have... All you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to. — Stephen Curry
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. — Oprah Winfrey
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. — Sigmund Freud
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. — Tony Robbins
The single most important thing in life is to believe in yourself regardless of what everyone else says. — Hikaru Nakamura
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. — John D. Rockefeller
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. — J. Sidlow Baxter
Our challenge in life is to use the abilities we have, and to compensate for the abilities we don’t have. Successful people compensate for what they don’t have. Unsuccessful people make excuses, blame everyone else and never get past the deficiencies. — Tim Grover
Successful Individuals Quotes
Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way. — Nikki Giovanni
A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit. — Pele
Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me? — Lou Holtz
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. — Babe Ruth
Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now. — Sylvia Earle
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. — Elihu Root
A lot of people like to romanticize burning the midnight oil or waking up at the crack of dawn, but the truth is that success is neither of those things. It’s just whatever works for you. — Alex Hormozi
There’s rich people who wake up really early, and there are rich people who wake up really late. There’s rich people who eat really healthy, and there are rich people who eat unhealthy. So there’s no one-size fits all approach to success. — Alex Hormozi
Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader. — Tony Dungy
Personal Success Quotes
No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person. — Abdul Kalam
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates
Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success. — Prince
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise. — J. R. D. Tata
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. — Viktor E. Frankl
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates
The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others. — George H. W. Bush
I have a definition of success. For me it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me. — Benjamin Zander
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill
My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion. — Tony Hawk
Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours. — Ichiro Suzuki
Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass. — Napoleon Hill
My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Any definition of a successful life must include service to others. — George H. W. Bush
We named the book 'Extreme Ownership' because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it's definitely an attitude that I had. — Jocko Willink
Definition Of Success Quotes
People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success. — Tony Levin
There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him. — Norman Vincent Peale
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. — W. Clement Stone
My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend. — Maria Shriver
Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams—either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it’s dependent upon those who stand beside you. — Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success. — Gerry Spence
If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success. — Elizabeth Perle Mckenna
The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider. — Mamphela Ramphele
If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious. — John Eliot
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity. — Paul Tillich
Individual Achievement Quotes
To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas. — Brock Chisholm
At the center of all achievement is personal growth. — Isaac Mashman
Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden — R. A. Salvatore
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved. — Hans Kung
So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled. — E. L. Doctorow
There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity. — Buck Rodgers
Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that. — William Easterly
Coercion is evil precisely because it eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another. — Friedrich August von Hayek
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning. — John Grierson
Real Success Quotes
Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back. — Muhammad Ali
Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire. — Sonia Sotomayor
Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased. — Ralph C. Smedley
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real. — Tony Robbins
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . . — Barack Obama
. . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you. — J. Willard Marriott
Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. — Michael E. DeBakey
True Success Quotes
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? — James Allen
Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope. — Philippe Petit
It is my right to be rich, happy, and successful.
Money flows to me freely, copiously, and endlessly.
I am forever conscious of my true worth. I give of my talents freely, and I am wonderfully blessed financially. It is wonderful! — Joseph Murphy
I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success. — Sarah Emma Edmonds
The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you. — Jackson Pollock
True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant. — Hrithik Roshan
Success is clarity of my intention....and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy. — India.Arie
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. — Hedy Lamarr
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. — George Edward Woodberry
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. — Tim McGraw
Successful Person Quotes
There are people who make things happen, there are people who
watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
things happen. — Jim Lovell
Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully. — John A. Lejeune
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes. — John C. Maxwell
The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow. — Ingvar Kamprad
Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up. — Booker T. Washington
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. — Robert Baden-Powell
You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face. — Herman Edwards
Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps. — Eileen Caddy
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be. — Albert Einstein
I still don't know what leads to success. But I know what leads to insuccess: a temperament of complaint, the mentality of permanent victimhood, and the collective and individual propensity for lamentation. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You will be successful as long as you make your life decisions based on your own value system and not others… — Peggy Whitson
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. — Robert Orben
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today. — Maxwell Maltz
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today. — Maxwell Maltz
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. — Babe Ruth
Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team. — Dot Richardson
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. — Felix Schelling
Success isn't about winning everything; it’s about achieving your dream, be that teaching middle school or flying jets. And no matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another. — Zosia Mamet
Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison. — Robert D. Hare
The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan. — Erik Erikson
Individual liberty demonstrates that some manners of living are more successful than others. — Friedrich August von Hayek
All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure. — Mary Baker Eddy
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind. — Adlai E. Stevenson
The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That's the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success. — Bill Bradley
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement. — Kurt Lewin
Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. — Conrad Hilton
Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives. — Jared Diamond
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. — Paulo Freire
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. — Margaret Mead
For the last one hundred and fifty years, the history of the House of Rothschild has been to an amazing degree the backstage history of Western Europe...Because of their success in making loans not to individuals but to nations, they reaped huge profits...Someone once said that the wealth of Rothschild consists of the bankruptcy of nations. — Frederic Morton
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. — David Attenborough
Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering — Viktor E. Frankl
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. — Thomas J. Watson
Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward. They harvest useful lessons and knowledge from what doesn't work, and they display a remarkable resiliency; and ability to bounce back from adversity. — Jerry I. Porras
All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms. — Harrison Ford
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. — Bernard Baruch
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. — Ed Mcmahon
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. — Bernard Baruch
The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure. — Denis Waitley
The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In the end, however, the species is temporary; it has no "eternal life." After existing for a certain period, it either dies or is converted by modification into other forms. — Ernst Haeckel
We can become great in the eyes of others, but we'll never become successful when we compromise our character and show disloyalty toward friends or teammates. The reverse is also true: No individual or team will become great without loyalty. — John Wooden
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