Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. Jonathan Kozol
Be careful, ever so careful, in trumpeting your own achievements, and always talk less about yourself than about other people. Modesty is generally preferable. Robert Greene
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today. Robert Greene
Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right. Gary Keller
If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are, but if you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you are. Naval Ravikant
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. Elbert Hubbard
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. Jonas Salk
If I tell you I’m good, probably you will say I’m boasting. But if I tell you I’m not good, you’ll know I’m lying. Bruce Lee
Show me someone for whom success is less important than the manner in which it is achieved. Of concern for the means, rather than the ends, of their actions…I want to see him. This is the person I have looked for a long time, the true genius. Epictetus
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein
There is little success where there is little laughter. Andrew Carnegie
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same. Audrey Hepburn
Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is. Brianna Wiest
If you only master yourself and you don’t help anyone else, we’d call you happy, but nobody would define you as successful. Derek Sivers
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. Ben Jonson
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. Euripides
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. Felicity Kendal
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. Henry A. Kissinger
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. Max Planck
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own. Michelle Obama
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it. Oprah Winfrey
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. Pablo Picasso
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. Paramahansa Yogananda
Success is the most important to many, to me it’s just a bonus. Lucas Grabeel
I have had all of the disadvantages required for success. Larry Ellison
