To have grown wise and kind is real success.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. (Danny Thomas)
Self trust is the first secret of success. (Ralph Emerson)
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments or publicity. (Thomas Wolfe)
Success in not a place at which one arrives but rather...the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey. (Alex Noble)
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has enjoyed the admiration of good people; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it... (Bessie Stanley)
Success is a series of glorious defeats... (Mohandas Gandhi)
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.... ( George Patton)
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. (Confucius)
Great things are usually built on a firm foundation of failure. (Pam Brown)
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime. (Gail Goodwin)
Diamonds are only chunks of coal, that stuck to their jobs. (Minnie Smith)
No illusion is more cruel than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind. (Larry McMurty)
Wealth, notoriety, place and power are no measure of success whatever.... ( William Danforth)
On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world. (Brigette Bardot)
Success has killed more people than bullets. (Texas Guinan)
Success is more dangerous than failure. The ripples break over a wider coastline... (Graham Greene)
All people who have achieved great things have been dreamers. (Orison Marden)
In your inmost heart you must believe that you can succeed where others have failed.(Sir Arthur Doyle)
Make no little plans; they have no magic... Make big plans, aim high in hope and work. (Daniel Burnham)
The great successful people of the world have used their imagination...they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work, materalizing that picture in all its details, filling in there, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building. (Robert Collier)
Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which we have overcome while trying to succeed. (Booker T Washington)
Sometimes it seems as if success takes place because of a lucky break or being in the right place at the right time. Usually the lucky break and the right time has been preceded by a history of hard work, positive thinking and being open and unblocked so that we can attract that which is positive and good for us. (Ruth Fishel)
At the end of life one's successes cease to matter much. Only friendships count. (Pam Brown)
The world is a wheel always turning. Those who are high go down low,and those who've been low go up higher.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. (Oprah Winfrey)
The power to hold on in spite of everything, the power to endure - this is the winners quality. Persistence is the ability to face defeat again & again without giving up - to push on in the face of great difficulty, knowing that victory can be yours. Persistence means taking pains to overcome every obstacle, and to do what's necessary to reach your goals. (Wynn Davis)
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. (Alex Noble)