"Choose a life that is most useful and habit will make it the most agreeable."
- Sir Francis Bacon

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to that alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.
- Charles Wesley

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- Bill Gates

Action is the foundational key to all success.
- Pablo Picasso

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
- Barbara Walters

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.
- Jean Paul Richter

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
- Margaret Thatcher

We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.
- Nelson Mandela

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli