Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. – Malcolm Forbes
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success. – Mason Cooley
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. – Bette Davis
Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self. – Ralph Marston
Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennett
When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts. – Bo Bennett
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? – James Allen
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. – Charles Kendall Adams
When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion. – Mason Cooley
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. – William Hazlitt
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within. – Brad Pitt
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. – Desiderius Erasmus
Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. – William J. H. Boetcker
If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire. – Mason Cooley
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success. – Marquis de Sade
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. – H. G. Wells
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. – Henri Matisse
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. – Giacomo Casanova
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. – Hedy Lamarr
