Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.

There is no success without hardship.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

Formula for success: underpromise and overdeliver.