Success Quotes

“By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.”

-- Jonathan Kozol

“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