meaning of success Quotes

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Being successful and fulfilling your lifes purpose are not at all the same thing; You can reach all your personal goals, become a raving success by the worlds standard and still miss your purpose in this life.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.

And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn't mean anything. Which means you get to start early the work of figuring out what does mean something -- David Foster Wallace

And that is also what the movie's about, going beyond success, what is success 'cause I think success is misperceived as just a cake and it isn't. There is many things inside that success. There's a maturity and a heartbreak and sadness and broken glass.

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.