Success Quotes

“By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.”

-- Jonathan Kozol

“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.”

-- Jane D. Hull

“Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!”

-- Jonathan Taylor Thomas

“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.”

-- Grover Cleveland

“I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.”

-- Charles Kuralt

“Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.”

-- Ron Fournier

“Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.”

-- Sting

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“You always pass failure on your way to success.”

-- Mickey Rooney

“The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.”

-- Simon Mainwaring