Definition Of Success Quotes

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

My definition of success is control.

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.

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.

I have a definition of success. For me it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.

My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion.

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

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.

By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.

To freely bloom that is my definition of success. The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.

The definition of success is total preparation.

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

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

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?

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.

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

God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.

I have a definition of success.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

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

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

There isn't a formal definition of success.

God’s definition of success is really one of significance-the significant difference our lives can make in the lives of others. The significance doesn’t show up in won-loss records, long resumes, or the trophies gathering dust on our mantels. It’s found in the hearts and lives of those we’ve come across who are in some way better because of the way we lived.

My definition of success? The more you are actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.

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

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

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

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

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?

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

For Builders, the real definition of success is a life and work that brings personal fulfillment and lasting relationships and makes a difference in the world in which they live.

Don't buy society’s definition of success. Because it’s not working for anyone. It’s not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.

During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.

I have two definitions of success - one on the basketball court and one in my personal life. In basketball, success means making my teammates better, winning basketball games and winning championships. In my personal life, success means being a good father to my sons and raising them to be strong men; taking care of my family and being a good friend; and using my influence to make a difference in the community.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

Now, here is my definition of success: A few simple Disciplines practiced every day. Do you see the distinction? A few disciplines... Here's a little phrase we've all heard, An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And my question to you is, What if that's true? How simple and easy is that plan?

One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to accept someone else's definition of success and to try to figure out, instead, what really is best for my own children, what unique combination of structure and freedom, nurturing and challenge, education and exploration, each of them needs in order to grow and bloom.

Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant.

People treat having a kid as somehow retiring from success. Quitting. Have you seen a baby? They’re pretty cute. Loving them is pretty easy. Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant. Being happy is really the definition of success, isn’t it?

Conclusions are based in time. We live in time. So any definition of success is bound up with time. With other things you can say, "Can I yo-yo? Can I juggle?" Usually you have a pretty small window in which to get your answer. Stand-up is different. You can't do stand-up for one night and say, "Am I a funny stand-up comedian?" In two months or two years you'll start to realize it.

This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.

Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.

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

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.