161. "I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard."
     • Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-73)
     • 36th US President, Democrat
     
     
     
162. "Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success."
     • Pete Johnson
     
     
     
163. "If we can ... get them to understand that saying “no” to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success."
     • John Van de Kamp
     
     
     
164. "Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
     • Herbert Kaufman
     
     
     
165. "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
     • Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
     • American memoirist, lecturer
     
     
     
166. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."
     • Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
     • American memoirist, lecturer
     
     
     
167. "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
     • Donald Kendall
     
     
     
168. "When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us—recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state—our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions—were we truly men of courage ... were we truly men of judgment ... were we truly men of integrity ... were we truly men of dedication?"
     • John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-63)
     • 35th US President, Democrat, politician
     
     
     
169. "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."
     • John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-63)
     • 35th US President, Democrat, politician
     
     
     
170. "No foreign policy—no matter how ingenious—has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
     • Henry Alfred Kissinger (b. 1923)
     • German-born American Republican diplomat, Secretary of State, Nobel winner