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.”

-- Graham Norton

“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”

-- Havelock Ellis

“There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.”

-- Sandra Bernhard

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”

-- George S. Patton

“Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.”

-- Epictetus

“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”

-- Ellen Glasgow

“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.”

-- Paul Getty

“There's no abiding success without commitment.”

-- Tony Robbins

“Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.”

-- Sparky Anderson

“First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.”

-- Anne Rice