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

“Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.”

“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.”

“On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.”

“Success is 99 percent failure.”

“I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.”

“The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.”

“In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.”

“But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.”

“In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.”

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

“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”

“The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.”

“Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.”

“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”

“I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.”

“Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.”

“It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.”

“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”

“In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.”

“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.”