THE REAL MEANING OF SUCCESS

Not every one can be famous but every one can be great. Doing the right thing and knowing that nobody else knows about it, is real greatness. You can be great any time you like. The timing is down to you. The opportunities are everywhere. YOU CHOOSE! (Dr Martin Luther King).

To have grown wise and kind is a real success. (Author Unknown)

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others. (Danny Thomas)

Success in inside You

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life. (Alex Noble).

Self Trust is the first secret of success…. (Ralph Waldo Emerson 1801 – 1882).

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. (Thomas Wolfe)

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather….the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey. (Alex Noble)

To Laugh often and Much

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. (Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882)

SUCCESS IS HOW HIGH YOU BOUNCE WHEN YOU HIT BOTTOM….. (George Patton)

OUR GREATEST GLORY IS NOT IN NEVER FAILING, BUT IN RISING EVERY TIME WE FALL (Confucious 551 – 479 BC).

GREAT THINGS ARE USUALLY BUILT ON A FIRM FOUNDATON OF FAILURE (Pam Brown B. 1928)


The great successful people of the world have used their imagination….they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work, materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building (Robert Collier)

Some times it seems as if success takes place because of a lucky break or being in the right place at the right time. Usually the lucky break and the right time has been preceded by a history of a hard work, positive thinking and being open and unblocked so that we can attract that which is positive and good for us (Ruth Fishel; from Time for Joy).

Who We Are
Achievement doesn’t come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power (Marianne Williamson)

Your best shot at happiness, self-worth, and personal satisfaction – the things that constitutes real success – is not in learning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile. Whether that is healing the sick, giving hope to the hopeless or adding the beauty of the world, or saving the world from nuclear holocaust….. (William Raspberry)

The Winners’ Quality

The power to hold on in spite of everything, the power to endure – this is the winner’s quality. Persistence is the ability to face defeat again and again without giving up – to push on in the face of great difficulty, knowing that victory can be yours. Persistence means taking pains to overcome every obstacle, and to do what’s necessary to reach your goals. (Wynn Davis – from The best of Success)

If a thousand plans fail, be not disheartened. As long as your purposes are right, you have not failed. (Thomas Davidson 1840 – 1900).

Achievement of Success

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that’s nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. (Hellen Hayes 1900 – 1993).

Where You Are Now

The best place to succeed is where you are and with what you have. (Charles M Schwab)

The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead people into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves…. (Andre Maurois 1885 – 1967)

The Worship of Success
Those who make fame and the opinions of others their life’s goal are always panting after it like a thirsty dog. They never find peace ……. (Martin Grey).



Successes Matter Less and Less

If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into defeat. (Simone De Beavoir 1908 – 1986)

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no “top”. (Nancy Barcus)

At the end of life one’s successes cease to matter much. Only friendships count. (Pam Brown, B 1928).

Make Each Minute Work For You

Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good are one thousands of minutes of triumph. (Norman Lear).

ENJOY IT!

Never take success too seriously. Just enjoy it while it lasts. (Pam Brown. B. 1928).

There are two things to aim in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. (Logan Pearsall Smith 1865 – 1946).

Success Makes People Nicer!

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. (Somerset Maugham 1874 – 1965).

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do (Sarah Caldwell).

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have (Oprah Winfrey B 1954).

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882).

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thoughts and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day (Alex Noble).