Define Success Quotes

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  Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

  Michelle Obama

  Motivational, Success, Inspirational Life

  Michelle Obama's Speech speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.

  Anita Roddick

  Success, Destiny, Care

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• Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

  Anne Sweeney

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

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• Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Wise, Meaningful

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 15 June 2008

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• The best revenge is massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

  Arianna Huffington

  Women, Failure, Successful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

  Treat Williams

  Success, Congratulations, Good As It Gets

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• There's nothing that says you have to succeed in the same way as someone else. In fact, there's nothing that says you must define success in the same way as someone else.

  Ralph Marston

  Way, Succeed, Facts

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• We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

  Arianna Huffington

  Positive, Success, Business

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• I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough:
  
  Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable.
  Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.

  Tim Ferriss

  Appreciation, Views, Two

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• Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

  William Feather

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

  Billy Graham

  Eye, Our World, Doe

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.330, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I define success by personal growth; if you don’t continue to grow, you can’t continue to succeed.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Growth, Succeed, Grows

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• Two Things that Define SUCCESS In LIFE: - The Way You Manage when You Have Nothing & Way You Behave when You Have Everything

  Akon

  Two, Way, Success In Life

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• A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.

  Michael Porter

  Goal, Target, Should

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• I would define success as setting a goal for yourself and then accomplishing it. I think successful people set out to do something and then just do it. They know before they accomplish their goal that they will, in fact, accomplish it.

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson

  Successful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I define success as when I say "yes" when I am given an opportunity.

  Jane Pauley

  Opportunity, Given

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• I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

  Marissa Mayer

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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• An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Art, Failure, Creative

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• I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

  Marissa Mayer

  Motivational, Strong Women, Successful

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, edition.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

  Arianna Huffington

  Eulogy, Way, Celebrate

  FaceBook post by Arianna Huffington from Mar 30, 2015

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• Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Judging, Judgment

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• I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be, it might be homelessness, whatever, but lately I've realized that success is "fulfilling your soul's purpose."

  Jack Canfield

  Loss, Soul, Culture

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• You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan; where do you want to put your efforts? I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Success, Giving Up, Integrity

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