Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

Being best is a false goal you have to measure success on your own terms.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

As you walk in God's divine wisdom you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others you will build up yourself.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare not by how many are added.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon and none beyond it?