Success Quotes
“I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.”
“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