Success Quotes
“I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.”
“Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.”
-- Max Lerner
“Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.”
-- Kevin Spacey
“The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.”
-- Luc de Clapiers
“I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.”
-- Cybill Shepherd
“Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'”
-- Johnny Carson
“Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.”
-- Barbara Walters