Famous Quotes

"Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show."

Ethel Waters 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 Ethel Waters

• "I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."

• "Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show."

• "Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."

• "We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."

• "Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."