Success

Success comes in many forms and means many things to different people. To me, success is finding a way to do what you love while making a decent living and keeping the people close to you who are a positive light in your life no matter how far away they live. (That may be a run on, shhhh)

What is your definition of success? Here are some of my favorite quotes about success:

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby

"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." - George Burns

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." -David Brinkley

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." - Dale Carnegie

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." - David Frost

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other." - Erma Bombeck

"Failure is success if we learn from it." - Malcolm Forbes

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success." - Dale Carnegie

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it." - Sam Ewing

"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching." - Tennessee Williams

"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten." - Jon Bon Jovi

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." - George S. Patton

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction." - Al Bernstein

"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." - Booker T. Washington

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." - William Feather

"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure." - B. C. Forbes

Purpose

We all want to know our purpose in this life... and I think some of us know it from a very young age. Unfortunately, sometimes it feels like this life tells you it's not possible, but these quotes will remind you otherwise.

"Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one MUST be."- Abraham Moslow

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
- From "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

"The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment." - Earl Nightingale