"My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people." ― John Philip Sousa Topic(s): Success More From John Philip Sousa "Remember always that the composer’s pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty." "Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music." "My religion lies in my composition." More In Success "It’s the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It’s a quality to be proud of. But it’s a quality that many people seem to have neglected."― Gerald R. Ford "Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success."― William J. H. Boetcker "I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."― George Burns