Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.