Pastoral Resources

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.