A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain


All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
- Mark Twain


Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln


Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
- Lance Armstrong


Applause waits on success.
- Ben Franklin


Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast.
- Tom Cruise


Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
- Henry Ford


Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. If you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.
- Joe Montana


Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed.
- Abraham Lincoln


He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
- Confucius


I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln


I did envision being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
- Tiger Woods


I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
- Walt Disney


I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan


I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan


I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
- Ingrid Bergman


If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein


If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford


If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.
- Tiger Woods


If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford


If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
- Henry Ford


It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
- Henry Ford


It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
- Aristotle


Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
- Mark Twain


My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.
- Joe Montana


Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
- Abraham Lincoln


Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
- Ingrid Bergman


Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
- Colin Powell


Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
- Colin Powell


Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
- Marilyn Monroe


That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln


The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
- Henry Ford


The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
- Confucius


There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell


To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
- Michael Jordan


Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
- Albert Einstein


We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
- Walt Disney


When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
- Confucius


When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.
- Tom Cruise


Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
- Walt Disney


Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.
- Joe Montana


Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
- Lance Armstrong


Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
- Ben Franklin