Success Quotes
“When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.”
-- Charles Schumer
“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
-- John Wooden
“What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
“I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.”
-- Roger Daltrey
“When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.”
-- Jessica Simpson
“I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.”
-- Peter McWilliams
“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
“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