Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.
To freely bloom... that is my definition of success.
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
There is only one success... to be able to spend your own life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest from which the bird has flown.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement that matters.