All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. - Dorthea Brande. View more images...

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. - Ethel Waters. View more images...

Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property. - Roy Ayers. View more images...

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. - Ayn Rand. View more images...

Saying we should keep the two-party [political] system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts. - Eugene J. McCarthy. View more images...

The art of dealing with people is the foremost secret of successful men. A man's success in handling people is the very yardstick by which the outcome of his whole life's work is measured. - Paul C. Packe. View more images...

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. - Paul J. Meyer. View more images...

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. - Oliver Wendell Holmes. View more images...

Success is your dreams with work clothes on - Unknown. View more images...

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event. - Paula Radcliffe. View more images...

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. - Orison Swett Marden. View more images...

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance. - C. W. Wendte. View more images...

I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one. - James Gordon Bennett. View more images...

I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it. - Groucho Marx. View more images...

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined. - Paul J. Meyer. View more images...