Success Quotes
“Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.”
“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