Success Quotes

“Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.”

-- Paul Feig

“Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.”

-- Elias Canetti

“Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.”

-- Erma Bombeck

“After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.”

-- Mason Cooley

“In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.”

-- Paulo Coelho

“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”

-- Alfred North Whitehead

“There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.”

-- Ricky Williams

“I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.”

-- Florence Nightingale

“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

-- Napoleon Hill

“Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.”

-- Noel Coward