Explore our authors

Quotes about Success by Paramahamsa Yogananda

  • Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure.
  • Release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.
  • Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.
  • Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you.
  • The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
  • The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose. Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose. It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained.
  • Another qualification of success is that we not only bring harmonious and beneficial results to ourselves, but also share those benefits with others.
  • Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.
  • Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
  • Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.
  • Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.