Success Quotes
“The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.”
“With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.”
-- Donny Osmond
“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.”
-- Sydney J. Harris
“I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.”
-- Jim Carrey
“The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.”
-- Joyce Brothers
“One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
-- Thomas A. Edison
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt