Pastoral Resources

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

I was experiencing all the success the entertainment industry has to offer, but I knew there had to be something more. It was sort of through that God prepared me to hear about His great plan.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.