The roughest road often leads to the top.
Christina Aguilera

That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.
Dale Earnhardt

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Bernard Baruch

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?
Jeanne Moreau

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.
Dennis Rodman

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.
Dennis Rodman

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.
Julius Erving

Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.
Pauly Shore

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
Steve Wozniak

To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.
Sebastian Bach

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Stevie Wonder

You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.
Dick Cheney

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
Barbra Streisand

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

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
Tom Brokaw

I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.
Matt Groening

Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.
Redd Foxx