“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
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.
“For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.”
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
“My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn't go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success.”
“In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?”
“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”
“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”
“We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.”
“For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.”
“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”
“Well, success does not mean doing well.”
“When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.”
“Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.”
“Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.”
“I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.”
“Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.”
“Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.”