“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”

“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.'”

“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?”

“The road to success is always under construction.”

“My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.”

“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.”

“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”

“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.”

“Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.”