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

“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”

-- Havelock Ellis

“There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.”

-- Sandra Bernhard

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”

-- George S. Patton

“Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.”

-- Epictetus

“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”

-- Ellen Glasgow

“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.”

-- Paul Getty

“There's no abiding success without commitment.”

-- Tony Robbins

“Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.”

-- Sparky Anderson

“First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.”

-- Anne Rice