Maeve Binchy Quotes

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

Success is measured differently by different people.

It's important to me to create the largest wonder.

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.

You appear to have a good project... we wish you well in this endeavor.

I've set no world record.

Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

It's always fantastic to be on the podium, and, of course, the top step is always our target.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

I want greatness.

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

I have accomplished all that I have set out to accomplish and more.

It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.

People would be like, 'Oh, 'Saturday Night Live' is such a stepping stone!' And I remember being like, 'A stepping stone?! This is my everything! I could just stop right here! This is the pinnacle!'

As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you reach your goal, then that's the box ticked for me. I don't feel the need to repeat titles or repeat victories; as soon as I get the one, then I'm happy.

At six years old, I told my dad that I would be world champion, and on Nov. 26, 2011, I am.