Pastoral Resources

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.

People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.