181. "Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage."
     • Charles Luckman
     
     
     
182. "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things."
     • Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
     • Italian political theorist, writer, "The Prince"
     
     
     
183. "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things."
     • Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
     • Italian political theorist, writer, "The Prince"
     
     
     
184. "It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that … the ghosts you chase you never catch."
     • John Malkovich (b. 1953)
     • U.S. stage and screen actor
     
     
     
185. "The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams."
     • Og Mandino
     • [The Greatest Salesman in the World]
     
     
     
186. "When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success."
     • Orison Swett Marden
     
     
     
187. "The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at."
     • Donald Robert Perry Marquis (1878-1937)
     • American journalist, created character "archy"
     
     
     
188. "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel."
     • W(illiam) Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
     • British writer, "Miss Thompson", "Of Human Bondage"
     
     
     
189. "Saying we should keep the two-party [political] system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts."
     • Eugene J. McCarthy
     
     
     
190. "Without question, reading has been the foundation of whatever success I've had in my life."
     • Hugh McColl, Jr.