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.”
“Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.”
-- Mike Ditka
“My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.”
-- Graham Norton
“As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.”
-- Ann Romney
“The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?”
-- Henry James
“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.”
-- Og Mandino
“I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.”
-- Aaliyah