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.”
“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
-- Benjamin Disraeli
“Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.”
-- Mikhail Bakunin
“Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.”
-- Ben Jonson
“We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.”
-- Marco Rubio