David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
~By Eddie Van Halen ~
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
~By James Monroe ~
But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.
~By Penn Jillette ~
Action is the foundational key to all success.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
~By Henry Hazlitt ~
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
~By Hugo Black ~
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
~By Max Planck ~
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
~By Babe Ruth ~
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
~By Sloan Wilson ~
You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.
~By Brenda Blethyn ~
I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
~By Julie Burchill ~
In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
~By Tony Robbins ~
Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
~By Randy Forbes ~
My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
~By John Hutton ~
Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
~By Michael Flatley ~
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.
~By Ron Chernow ~
God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.
~By Steve Harvey ~
The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
~By Rupert Holmes ~
The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.
~By Leon Gambetta ~
We live within two environments: one is physical and surrounds us; the other is mental and is inside of us. Both can be designed to support your success.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.
~By Neil Sheehan ~
My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
~By Pat Riley ~
Success is the sum of details.
~By Harvey S. Firestone ~
I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of our democratic order will be successful.
~By Girma Woldegiorgis ~
My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
~By Randy Bachman ~
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
~By Daniel Patrick Moynihan ~
I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.
~By Brett Hull ~
I couldn't imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.
~By Treat Williams ~
Success is dependent on effort.
~By Sophocles ~
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.
~By John H. Reagan ~
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.
~By Puff Daddy ~
People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.
~By Michael Ironside ~
There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.
~By Cindy Margolis ~
Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.
~By Gary Kemp ~
I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
~By Thomas John Watson, Sr. ~
It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.
~By Roland Emmerich ~
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.
~By Mike Johanns ~
First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.
~By Franz Beckenbauer ~
I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.
~By Ron Jaworski ~
Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.
~By John Mica ~
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.
~By Johannes Rau ~
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
~By George Eliot ~
I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
~By Erykah Badu ~
Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them.
~By Kristin Davis ~
If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
~By Gerald Vann ~
How does one measure the success of a museum?
~By Paul Getty ~
After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
~By Charlie Gonzalez ~
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
~By Mike Ditka ~
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.
~By Herbert Bayard Swope ~
The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
~By Andy Rooney ~
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
~By Ben Jonson ~
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
~By Edward Coke ~
Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.
~By Phil Donahue ~
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
~By Bob Feller ~
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
~By Bruce Lee ~
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
I wanted to be successful, not famous.
~By George Harrison ~
I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.
~By Fred L. Turner ~
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
~By Barry Mann ~
The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
~By Carol Gilligan ~
There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.
~By John Otway ~
But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.
~By Deana Carter ~
I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.
~By Wolfgang Puck ~
The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.
~By King Hussein I ~
Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success.
~By William Cameron Forbes ~
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
~By Maria Montessori ~
Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.
~By Bill Kurtis ~
I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
~By Tre Cool ~
The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.
~By Joan Chen ~
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.
~By Lefty Gomez ~
My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.
~By Gustav Krupp ~
You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
~By Claude Vorilhon ~
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