Success Definitions Quotes & Sayings

People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success. — Tony Levin

The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy. — Zig Ziglar

My definition of success is to be happy in what you like to do best. It's not a monetary value; it's an internal value in itself. If you're happy from the inside-out, thats what is important. Success comes as a day to day value or reaching a goal that you have, and you've got to prepare yourself for what's to come when success is there. — DeMarcus Ware

I'd like to expand the definition of the word 'success' to include 'failure' as the one seems inseparable from the other. — Dov Davidoff

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success. — Gerry Spence

The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors. — Tony Hsieh

Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational capabilities, which they may otherwise learn to discount or overlook. We can also offer and model for them definitions of maturity, masculinity, health and success that will enable them to remain grounded in their self-knowledge (e.g. as they encounter societal pressures to conform to group and cultural norms), and to form relationships that will sustain rather than constrain them. — Judy Chu

If you're happy, that's probably the most important thing. Everyone probably has their own definition of success, for me it's happiness. Do I enjoy what I'm doing? Do I enjoy the people I'm with? Do I enjoy my life? — Michael Dell

I'm just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success. — Gavin Rossdale

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend. — Maria Shriver

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.) — Jacqueline Briskin

SUCCESS DEFINITION
WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success. — Abdul Kalam

I don't think success is a place or a definition, I think it's a direction. — Charles Wang

Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence. — George W. Bush

My great definition of success comes from Thoreau: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." That always has defined my road to what you call phenomenal success. I have advanced confidently in the direction of my dreams. I have lived the life I imagined. And I have had a ball doing it. — Wayne Dyer

My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors. — John Spence

People often say to me, "How come you don't want to be CEO of a company?" And I tell them, "I don't want to." I know I can do it, but I don't enjoy it. Why does that have to be the definition of success? — Charlene Li

My definition of success is not having things thrown at me! — Orson Welles

There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of bad; not changing things, but generally considered good and bad throughout the ages and throughout the species. Of the good, we think always of wisdom, tolerance, kindliness, generosity, humility; and the qualities of cruelty, greed, self-interest, graspingness, and rapacity are universally considered undesirable. And yet in our structure of society, the so-called and considered good qualities are invariable concomitants of failure, while the bad ones are the cornerstones of success ... Perhaps no other animal is so torn between alternatives. Man might be described fairly adequately, if simply, as a two-legged paradox. — John Steinbeck

No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life. — Archibald Marwizi

My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time. — Carolyn Warner

The definition of success is total preparation. — George Allen

Don't believe it when people tell you that you will never accomplish anything great in life, or that you're ordinary or should just stay the same as everybody else. Don't let them define you, your life or your future. Don't let society or people restrict or blind you with their definitions of what's beautiful and what's not, and what's successful and what's not, follow your heart. — Auliq Ice

Realize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic,bold moves which by definition, cannot be planned. — F. Ross Johnson

My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose." — Jack Canfield

I have a definition of success.. — Benjamin Zander

It is necessary to prepare and to plan so that we don't fritter away our lives. Without a goal, there can be no real success. One of the best definitions of success I have ever heard goes something like this: success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Someone has said the trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never cross the goal line. — Thomas S. Monson