The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
Nothing recedes like success.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
I've had great success being a total idiot.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
