Success Quotes
“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a 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