All of us are born for a reason but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

Which is - you know like check it out I'm pretty young I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book right?

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded in touch in love connected emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others you will build up yourself.

I always think when there's stuff that people don't like I always say that if I have another success I'll enjoy it more but you don't really.

Although in skating you compete with other people anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better learn more learn faster is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

After a lifetime of working raising families and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

Like so many American families our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact they admired it.

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.

Never mind what others do do better than yourself beat your own record from day to day and you are a success.

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.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties passing from one step of success to another forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success and there is no other.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling the confidence in success which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.