I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those you're being deprived of something.

It's nice being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success so that makes it a bunch easier.

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.

Success is a process a quality of mind and way of being an outgoing affirmation of life.

For me I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally I was able to stop waiting tables and I was able to pay the rent and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic but good enough to make a living.

Success is not a destination but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

For example the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3 or living in an apartment with no electricity.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

Being best is a false goal you have to measure success on your own terms.

Success consists in being successful not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace but there's no palace till it's built.

As my father used to tell me the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic but you never really enjoy success.

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion dedication hard work and being in the right place at the right time.

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

In the end you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

Real success is not on the stage but off the stage as a human being and how you get along with your fellow man.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?