Quotes on Success Is Not Measured

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

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing.

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

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

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