Famous Quotes

"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."

Al Yankovic 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 Al Yankovic

• "When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience."

• "In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me."

• "So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit."

• "People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'"

• "I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes."