Pastoral Resources

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

I couldn't imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.

Success is the sweetest revenge.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

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.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Nothing recedes like success.

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.