Best Measure Of Success Quotes

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life’s daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That’s really the measure of success for the United States.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money, it’s not fame, it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

You measure success by how much good you do for others.

There are some things that could hold it together, notably oil revenues. But at the moment, the much vaunted surge has had a measure of success primarily, to my mind, because Sunni and Shia Iraqis hate and fear each other more these days than they hate and fear the Americans.

We can’t keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, ‘Is it working?’

I don’t really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.

If all of the issues that I have worked on were depending on some measure of success, it would be a total failure. I don’t anticipate success. We’re not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful. I couldn’t even tell you what success is.

Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.

It’s easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it – the war fighter and the analyst.

You can’t measure success if you have never failed.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

My measure of success is to walk into a restaurant and hear a table debating drug policy. Once the public start the conversation, the politicians will join – that is when we can create real change.

Being an artist, it’s always tempting to measure success through other people’s eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

The best way to measure how much you’ve grown isn’t by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track or even your grade point average – though those things are important, to be sure. It’s what you’ve done with your time, how you’ve chosen to spend your days, and whom you have touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.

You have got to convince people, the Drive-By Media, the mainstream media, is never going to support us, and if you continue to define political success as the media supporting us and not supporting a Democrat, you’re never gonna be happy, because that’s never going to happen. And if that remains your measure of success, then you’re gonna get fooled each and every time.

The best measure of success, is how you deal with failure

Do not measure success by today’s harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

It wasn’t until I’d met everyone else’s measure of success that I realized I’d failed myself.

Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.

I don’t measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.