• "There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you." - Ricky Williams Tweet
• "Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success." - Ayelet Waldman Tweet
• "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind." - W. Somerset Maugham Tweet
• "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 Tweet
• "I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances." - Lee Ann Womack Tweet
• "Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions." - Orlando Bloom Tweet
• "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times." - Niccolo Machiavelli Tweet
• "It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success." - R. L. Stine Tweet
• "A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success." - Robert Orben Tweet
• "Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive." - Scott Adams Tweet