Quotes About Success

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her.

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum.

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.

Every success is the mother of countless others.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.