Success Quotes

“We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.”

-- Marco Rubio

“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