Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought

It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand

For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown

The day is committed to error and floundering success and achievement are matters of long range

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves