Friday 8 July 2011

Success quotes and sayings

Quotations about success and what it means to be successful.


Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Hermain Cain

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney

There is no success but your own success.
Leslie Grimutter

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

4 comments:

  1. These are great success quotes! Here's one more for you ...

    Success and failure are partners in our journey to achieving our goals in life. The Life Thinker

    Thanks for sharing these excellent thoughts.

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  2. "Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

    This one really touched me.

    Because it reminds me the following story from a hadith of the last Messenger of Allah (Muhammad peace be upon him):



    Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (Radi Allah Anhu) reported Allah's Messenger (sal-allahu-alleihi-wasallam) as saying:
    "There was a person before you who had killed ninety-nine persons and then made an inquiry about the learned persons of the world (who could show him the way to salvation). He was directed to a monk. He came to him and told him that he had killed ninety-nine persons and asked him whether there was any scope for his repentance to be accepted. He said: No. He killed him also and thus completed one hundred. He then asked about the learned persons of the earth and he was directed to a scholar, and he told him that he had killed one hundred persons and asked him whether there was any scope for his repentance to be accepted. He said: Yes; what stands between you and the repentance? You better go to such and such land; there are people devoted to prayer and worship and you also worship along with them and do not come to the land of yours since it was an evil land (for you). So he went away and he had hardly covered half the distance when death came to him and there was a dispute between the angels of mercy and the angels of punishment. The angels of mercy said: This man has come as a penitent and remorseful to Allah and the angels of punishment said: He has done no good at all. Then there came another angel in the form of a human being in order to decide between them. He said: You measure the land to which he has drawn near. They measured it and found him nearer to the land where he intended to go (the land of piety), and so the angels of mercy took possession of it. Qatada said that Hasan told him that it was said to them that as death approached him, he crawled upon his chest (and managed) to slip in the land of mercy."

    [Sahih Muslim : Book 37, Book Name Kitab Al-Tauba Number 6662]




    This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Qatida with the same chain of transmitters but (with this variation of wording):" Allah commanded the earth (from where) he wanted to come out to move itself away and to the other earth (where he wanted to go) to draw nearer."

    [Sahih Muslim : Book 37, Book Name Kitab Al-Tauba Number 6664]

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  3. Ritchie: You're v. welcome! Thanks for sharing a quote here!

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  4. Eyewitness: a very interesting Hadith, Allah bless you for sharing it. I'm so glad that the quote touched and helped you. I think I understand the comparison you've made, it is a very interesting one!

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