“Success is dependent on effort.”
Success means different things to different people, which is exactly the point. These quotes challenge conventional definitions and offer alternatives — because the version of success that actually makes you happy might not be the one on the magazine cover.
“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
“Success is dependent on effort.”
“I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.”
“It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.”
“Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'”
“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”
“There is no success without hardship.”
“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.”
“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
“I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.”
“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
“Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.”
“I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'”
“The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.”
“When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.”