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.”
“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”
-- George Edward Woodberry
“In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.”
-- Lynn Johnston
“The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.”
-- Gwen Stefani
“Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.”
-- Matthew Sweet
“We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.”
-- Arthur Schopenhauer