Success Quotes

“Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?”

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”

-- George S. Patton

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'”

-- Maria Montessori

“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?”

-- Logan P. Smith

“The road to success is always under construction.”

-- Arnold Palmer

“My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.”

-- Johnny Carson

“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.”

-- W. Clement Stone

“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”

-- Mae West

“And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.”

-- Sam Donaldson

“Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.”

-- Anne Rice