“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.”

“Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.”

“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”

“The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.”

“In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.”

“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”

“I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”

“I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”

“Failure is a part of success.”

“Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.”

“The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial it was something very personal to me.”

“Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.”

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

“Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.”

“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.”

“Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.”

“Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.”

“I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.”

“One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.”

“With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.”