Success Quotes
“My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.”
“Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.”
-- Dirk Benedict
“You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.”
-- Percy Ross
“It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.”
-- Samuel Smiles
“Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.”
-- Camille Paglia
“Don't aim for success if you want it just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”
-- David Frost
“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
-- Herbert Kaufman