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Here you will find thoughts and definitions of success which I find interesting, inspiring and amusing.

Your believes determine you actions and your actions determine your results but first you have to believe.

In general, "success" is the achievement of one's aim or goal. It is often used specifically to mean financial profitability. People who achieve their goals are frequently termed "successes" as well.

Success is the result of countless failures you've done in order to attain it.
Mark Aaron A. Corrales

What is success?
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 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 even one life has breathed Easier because you have lived; This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.
Unknown

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

Don't bother to just be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

Good is the enemy of great. Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.
Jim Collins, author of Good to Great

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby (born 1937)

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Steven Wright

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), American poet

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Will Smith

Success is like a pie, there are diffrent layers
Qun Zhang (Chinese Poet)

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Arthur Rubinstein (1886–1982)

Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison

Others have done it before me. I can, too.
William Faulkner

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
Fran Lebowitz

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw

Success doesn't come to you… you go to it.
Marva Collins, American educator

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Bobby Unser, American automobile racer

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King

The race is interesting. The finish line is boring.
Frank Unibaum

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley, American author and journalist, 1890–1957
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), American poet

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller (1880–1968), American writer