“Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.”
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.
“To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.”
“Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.”
“The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.”
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.”
“If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.”
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.”
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.”
“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”
“There is little success where there is little laughter.”
“Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.”
“Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.”
“I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.”
“Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.”
“Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?”