It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself. Lena Dunham
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. Golda Meir
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. Vaclav Havel
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. Mary Kay Ash
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Walter Scott
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. Earl Nightingale
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? Kin Hubbard
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. Dan Millman
I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life. Drew Barrymore
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. Malcolm Forbes
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Roger Babson
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success. Mason Cooley
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. Robert Foster Bennett
I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it. Mike Krzyzewski
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Rita Rudner
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. Thomas J. Watson
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. Bette Davis
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. Karen Armstrong