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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.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

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.

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

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

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.

To go about your work with pleasure, to greet others with a word of encouragement, to be happy in the present and confident in the future; this is to have achieved some measure of success in living.

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn’t always stay the same.

When companies start measuring success by clicks that doesn’t compute to us, the only thing that computes to us is cash.

It’s nice, being brought up with no money at all. It’s just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

The true measure of success isn’t winning, it’s whether you won & could actually deliver.

While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency – lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Success for me is going beyond money and power, and measuring success based on a third metric – one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder and to give back. Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you’re going to topple over. Basically, success the way we’ve defined it is no longer sustainable.

Some people’s measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.

I haven’t given it (achieving 3,000 hits) much thought. I was taught a certain approach, how to come to the ballpark. I try not to do too much thinking about things like that. In this society we measure success in different ways. Three thousand (hits) represents success over a career, not a season. It’ll be nice to get to that point.

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life.

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

If you believe in what you’re doing, you’ll be successful.

As the director, you’re meant to be critical and you are, so there are loads of things. But the thing is, the way I look at it is, to try to get some measure of success, it’s dangerous to look at financial or critical success, or positive response as a measure.

You’ve got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people’s opinions, the way other people measure success. It’s then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

I see women going anywhere they want to. And I do mean want to. Because a lot of people measure success merely by position, title and salary. I think women feel comfortable enough in their own skin to put that secondary to what they want. They don’t have to define success by the measure of society.

I think if you’re behind the times, you’ve failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that’s a measure of success.

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and – just as the Tea Party did – it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

You always measure success by what you did last. It’s hard to measure that because it’s something that just comes. If someone can just make a hit, they would do it everyday. But you can’t make a hit that you know is a hit every day.