Quotes About Meaning

Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within.

I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.

The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

For me, success to me is waking up and doing what you're doing every day, whatever that looks like to me.

My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.

My literary success meant nothing to me

I had many of the trappings of success. I was a lawyer. I drove a nice car and I had nice things. But "things" don't make a rich life.

Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?

Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

to a happy man, a prayer is a monotonous composition, void of meaning, until the day when suffering deciphers the sublime language through which the poor victim addresses God.