To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. - Mark Twain. View more images...

I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it." - Katherine Dunham. View more images...

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better. - Kate Winslet. View more images...

Dustin Farnum: "I've never been better! In the last act yesterday, I had the audience glued to their seats." Oliver Herford: "How clever of you to think of it." O, she is the antidote to desire. - William Congreve. View more images...

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. - Kenneth L. Pike. View more images...

It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming. - John Sexton. View more images...

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized. - Charles E. Popplestone. View more images...

In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. - Daniel L. Reardon. View more images...

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. - Theodore Roosevelt. View more images...

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway. - Josh Billings. View more images...

Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving. - Pindar. View more images...

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. - Abraham Lincoln. View more images...

[S]uccess is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. - Michael Korda. View more images...

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck. View more images...