Quotes on Personal Success

We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness - I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice - that's more than a barren life. It's a trivial one.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power. And no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children or merely role models.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have.

Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.