Famous Quotes

"Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'"

Bill Cosby on Success

More quotes about Success

• "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."

  Bill Cosby on Success

• "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

  Swami Vivekananda on Success

• "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

  Bruce Lee on Success

• "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

  David Brinkley on Success

• "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

  Winston Churchill on Success

More quotes by Bill Cosby

• "Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries."

• "The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods."

• "Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them."

• "Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made."

• "Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework."