SUCCESS: QUOTES

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931)

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen (1953 - )

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), Orley Farm, chapter 49, 1950

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009

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