There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
To measure success with material things is failure!
True success is not a project but a journey.
Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
It is impossible to deny that dishonest men often grow rich and famous, becoming powerful in their parish or in parliament. Their portraits grace shop windows; and they live and die respected. This success is theirs; yet it is not the success which a noble soul will envy.
To achieve success wasn't to get into the major leagues or have the best season in the world. The best success is to live your life the way God wants you to.
Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success.
The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them.
All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can't have true success without significance.
True success is what you have done compared to what you could have done.
If you make the goal of your life just to stay alive, you'll fail. If you make the goal of your life the kingdom, you cannot lose.
Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.
Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.
You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.
I can tell you there are rewards that go far beyond money and public acclaim and awards.
I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately.
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
