Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. - Norman Lear. View more images...

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. - Amos Bronson Alcott. View more images...

Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological-resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul. - Barbara Ehrenreich. View more images...

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. - Confucius. View more images...

Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years. - Monty Hall. View more images...

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it. - Marilyn Manson. View more images...

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice. - Barbra Streisand. View more images...

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much. - Anna Quindlen. View more images...

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses. - Marlo Thomas. View more images...

If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping. - Ada Teixeira. View more images...

That the film turned out to be coherent is a miracle. That it is successful proves there is a God. - Martin Brest. View more images...

I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why. - Mark Twain. View more images...

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? - Jessamyn West. View more images...

I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom. - John Sexton. View more images...

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it. - John Mayer. View more images...