Top 1200 Define Success Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The key to my perseverance was absolutely loving the craft of acting. I just figured that if I kept doing it, at the very least I would get better at acting. Even if I didn't become a tremendous success, as long as I knew I was improving and getting better, to me, that was success.

Your success starts with how you are able to get clients in the door, get their business, and leave them satisfied. If you, personally, have to spend too much time doing that, you have simply bought yourself a job, not an enterprise. Take hints from success stories all around you!

Words don't define me. Actions, my faith, and the strength of my relationships and family do.

However, I believe that large groups make markets, so serving the needs of large groups is a simple approach to success in business success. But that's no reflection on whether or not they're making wise moves or good calls. It's just about filling the need.

The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

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.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

We don't really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn't define who they are.

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

I don't want people to define me. That's the best way for an actor to grow.

People treat having a kid as somehow retiring from success. Quitting. Have you seen a baby? They’re pretty cute. Loving them is pretty easy. Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant. Being happy is really the definition of success, isn’t it?

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

Zionism wants to define the Jewish people as a national entity ... which is a heresy.

Success breeds success.

I think that the success of the franchise is helpful for launching different aspects of my career. It's sort of the reliable cousin that you can always count on for every family reunion. Because of 'Step Up' I've been able to really take my career to the next level. I have them to thank for a lot of my success.

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.

President Obama attacks success and therefore under President Obama we have less success and I will change that.

If you want peace, you've got to deal with people; you don't just deal with objects. And whether they take it as a responsibility or not, the success or failure in Kosovo is going to be the success or failure of building, first, economic hope, and then trying to heal the damage that's been done.

It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

A word of advice is, when you judge someone, it doesn't define the person that you're judging. It defines you.

Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

For so many people, it's very hard to feel okay with success, because success is not cool. It supposedly tarnishes your thing; it ruins little pockets of scenes and the self-importance that comes from thinking you're the only people in your town that are doing something.

I don't want to have success to have success.

Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity. 5. The worth of character. 6. The power of kindness. 7. The influence of example. 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom of economy. 10. The virtue of patience. 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy of originating.

Don't let anyone define you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are.

Her success is my success.

Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

An inevitable question asked of a performer who has made a modest success of his career is, 'How has success changed you?' It's a loaded question because it automatically assumes that there has been a change. And, in a sense, the assumption is a correct one. Basically, however, most people remain pretty much the same.

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.

To me, what success looks like is not to believe that Afghanistan can become a unified, Western-style democracy with a developed-country economy just yet. I think success in the American interest is some level of assurance that it's not going to be a place that again leads to an attack on the American homeland.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger of being faced with indifference or hostility is discouraging, and it may be that success - acceptance if it's too quick, too lightning-quick - can turn the heads of some people.

In the '80s, I thought I'd be a success as a woman if I were the president of a billion dollar company, had a sensitive soul-mate husband, two bilingual children, buns of steels, and a compost heap. In the '90s, I pretty much feel I'm a success if I can get through the afternoon without eating a cheesecake.

Our sex need not primarily define who we are, what we are capable of, or what we can be expected to enjoy or engage in.

Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.

Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you. They don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you.

A la Rothschild, a style I define as many good things used irreverently.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

There are times we spent money when we shouldn't, the choices we make define the results we get

I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves.

We of course define all terror organizations as threats, but the PKK is the primary threat.

I owe 40 per cent of my success to films from the south like 'Himmatwala,' 'Toofan,' 'Mawaali,' 'Maqsad,' Tamil and Telegu films such as 'Big Boss,' 'Apurva Shar,' 'Gangleader,' etc. I salute the south for contributing immensely to my success.

Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. It's the ability to effortlessly fulfill your deepest desires. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success are universal principles you can use to manifest your greatest dreams, with grace and ease.

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

Success is something good, and something bad. I don't know if it's good to always go after success.

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.

When you're talking to legends, they've already went through this process of playing in the NBA and also living after their career is over. Being able to hear their stories, how they've had success and others have had success to get an idea of what we should be looking to do and know what we need to do is just really helpful.

Success was one of my weakest points. I was so ill-prepared for it. I never appreciated within myself the gift of success. I never accepted it. People gave me so much momentum and love, and people really got my music, but I didn't accept it. That's probably one of my biggest regrets.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success. No other element can do so much for a man if he is willing to study them and make capital out of them. Look backward. Can't you see where your failures have helped you?

For me, having it all - if one wants to define it at all - is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up.

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

The desire for success is inherent within all of us. It is a part of our nature to want to grow, to improve the quality of our lives. However, nothing improves by accident, it requires conscious attention. When you are being bombarded by negatives, improvement, growth and success are easy to forget.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.