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

“Fame and success are very different things.”

-- Enya

“Success comes in waves.”

-- Guy Pearce

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

-- Winston Churchill

“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.”

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.”

-- Roger Babson

“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”

-- Tennessee Williams

“Success has always been a great liar.”

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”

-- Amos Bronson Alcott

“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.”

-- William Osler