Pastoral Resources

Success is a journey, not a destination.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

I'm not doing my work for constant success.

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

Success is a great deodorant.

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract.

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.