Measure Of Success Quotes - Page 2

• The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

  Deborah Moggach

  Disappointment, Real, Trying

  "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Way, Best Way

  "8 Unusual Things I Learned From Warren Buffett" by James Altucher, jamesaltucher.com.

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  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

  Dream, Real, Odds

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage

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• Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

  Connie Sellecca

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.

  Steffi Graf

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

  Damien Hirst

  Order, People, Use

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler.

  Alan Cohen

  Spirit, Accurate, Rulers

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• The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track or even your grade point average - though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you have touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.

  R. J. Palacio

  Running, Average, Years

  "Wonder". Book by R. J. Palacio, February 14, 2012.

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• College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

  Paul McAllister

  School, College, Coaching

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• My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

  Jane Rule

  Success, Commitment, Balance

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• My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Graduation, Fighting

  "Learning and Respect". Elie Wiesel's commencement speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, June 15, 1997.

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• How many people you bless is how you measure success

  Rick Ross

  Life, Success, People

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• The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

  Adam Grant

  Real, Successful, People

  Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.181, Penguin

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• We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working?'

  Paul Ryan

  Success, Program, Measuring

  "Hill Dems, Republicans clash over how to address causes of Baltimore unrest" by Deirdre Walsh, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2015.

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• Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.

  Charles L. Allen

  People

  Charles L. Allen (1984). “God's Psychiatry: Healing for the Troubled Heart and Spirit”, p.36, Baker Books

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• It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

  Samuel Smiles

  Life, Men, Effort

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.348

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• That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Fame, Should, Fiasco

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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• For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• To measure success with material things is failure!

  Tony Robbins

  Materials, Material Things

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jul 27, 2011

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• The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Success, Differences, Insanity

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• Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process.

  Kevin Spacey

  School, Weekend, Office

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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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• If all of the issues that I have worked on were depending on some measure of success, it would be a total failure. I don't anticipate success. We're not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful. I couldn't even tell you what success is.

  Martin Sheen

  Successful, Issues, Faithful

  Source: progressive.org

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