Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own. Michelle Obama
Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right. Gary Keller
Best predictor of success: Innate ability to allocate time properly. Keith Rabois
Success is created by doing the basics, to a high standard, consistently. Thibaut
Success comes down to choosing the pain of discipline over the ease of capitulation. Thibaut
Are you chasing success? Chase good habits instead. Maxime Lagacé
“Winning” is a matter of perception. Some will check the scoreboard, others will check the progress. What are you checking? Maxime Lagacé
If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are, but if you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you are. Naval Ravikant
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. Elbert Hubbard
Your level of success will rarely exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become. Ryan Holiday
If I tell you I’m good, probably you will say I’m boasting. But if I tell you I’m not good, you’ll know I’m lying. Bruce Lee
Show me someone for whom success is less important than the manner in which it is achieved. Of concern for the means, rather than the ends, of their actions…I want to see him. This is the person I have looked for a long time, the true genius. Epictetus
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein
Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is. Brianna Wiest
If you only master yourself and you don’t help anyone else, we’d call you happy, but nobody would define you as successful. Derek Sivers
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. Ben Jonson
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. Euripides
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. Henry A. Kissinger
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. Max Planck
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it. Oprah Winfrey
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. Pablo Picasso
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. Paramahansa Yogananda
I have had all of the disadvantages required for success. Larry Ellison
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. Lily Tomlin
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. Corita Kent
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him. William Lyon Phelps
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver
Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. Chet Atkins
Life is not about accomplishing things and then showing off to people. It’s about doing what truly matters to you in the most beautiful way possible. Maxime Lagacé
Success isn’t always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life. Allan Houston
Those who succeed and are happy know that the goal is to be authentic and memorable and make a difference, not to be understood and liked by everyone. Neil Strauss
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. Amy Chua
Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success. Anson Mount
Sometimes success comes in ways you don’t expect. Ben Barnes
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. Barack Obama
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. Dale Carnegie
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. Ernest Dimnet
Often it’s the little, daily decisions – the ones you make hour by hour – that mean the difference between success and failure. Mary Kay Ash
We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain. Jesse Jackson
I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success. Billy Sheehan
Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self-criticism. Albert Einstein
I’m not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work. Bridget Moynahan
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. Ambrose Bierce
Hard work – the most raw and obvious way to reach something. Maxime Lagacé
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. William M. Winans
People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning. Kobe Bryant
I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non successful entrepreneurs is pure perseverance. It is so hard, you pour so much of your life into this thing, there are such rough moments in time, that most people give up. I don’t blame them, it’s really tough. Steve Jobs
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. Frank Lloyd Wright