281 Quotes on Succeed

• I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

  Author: Slavoj Zizek

• But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

  Author: Fareed Zakaria

• If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

  Author: Henny Youngman

• I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.

  Author: Michael York

• Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

  Author: Douglas Wilson

• Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Author: Ted Williams

• I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

  Author: Thomas Watson

• I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.

  Author: Jody Watley

• You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

  Author: An Wang

• To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

  Author: Voltaire

• If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

  Author: David Viscott

• To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

  Author: David Viscott

• They succeed, because they think they can.

  Author: Virgil

• It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

  Author: Tanya Tucker

• I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

  Author: Boris Trajkovski

• We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

  Author: William Thackeray

• Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

  Author: Donna Tartt

• To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

  Author: Charles Talleyrand

• To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

  Author: Ali Talib

• We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.

  Author: Bob Taft

• If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

  Author: Leo Szilard

• The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

  Author: Ichiro Suzuki

• The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

  Author: Peter Stuyvesant

• When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

  Author: Gloria Stuart

• Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

  Author: Igor Stravinsky

• Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

  Author: Laurence Sterne

• A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

  Author: Ben Stein

• Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

  Author: Sophocles

• The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.

  Author: Ed Smith

• It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

  Author: Samuel Smiles

• Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

  Author: Tom Skerritt

• The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

  Author: Hu Shih

• The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

  Author: Richard Sheridan

• As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.

  Author: Robert Shea

• Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

  Author: George Shaw

• If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

  Author: Lal Shastri

• On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

  Author: Natan Sharansky

• Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

  Author: David Selby

• I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

  Author: Charles Schwab

• Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

  Author: Robert Schuller

• I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

  Author: Robert Schuller

• The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.

  Author: Bob Schaffer

• It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

  Author: Joseph Roux

• There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

  Author: Isabella Rossellini

• It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

  Author: George Romero

• If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

  Author: John Rockefeller

• Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• You always succeed in producing a result.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  Author: Rainer Rilke

• There is no longer time for statements like "if only" or "we can't." We must and we will succeed. The only question now is how and when. I believe the time is now.

  Author: Bob Riley

• Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

  Author: Jean Renoir

• I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

  Author: Ruth Rendell

• I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

  Author: Ed Rendell

• To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

  Author: Ernest Renan

• Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

  Author: Harry Reid

• Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

  Author: Marcel Proust

• If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

  Author: William Phelps

• Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

  Author: Eddie Perez

• No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

  Author: James Penney

• I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.

  Author: Stuart Pearce

• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  Author: Octavio Paz

• I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.

  Author: Tim O'Reilly

• It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.

  Author: Bill O'Reilly

• To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

  Author: Aristotle Onassis

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  Author: Barack Obama

• Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

  Author: James Northcote

• Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

  Author: Chester Nimitz

• People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

  Author: Earl Nightingale

• I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

  Author: Nichelle Nichols

• Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

  Author: George Nathan

• Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.

  Author: Timothy Murphy

• Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.

  Author: Lionel Murphy

• The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.

  Author: John Mortimer

• There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

  Author: Daniel Moran

• Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

  Author: Maria Montessori

• In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

  Author: Charles Montesquieu

• I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

  Author: Charles Montesquieu

• France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

  Author: Francois Mitterrand

• If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

  Author: Ludwig Mises

• It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

  Author: David Merrick

• When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.

  Author: Ethel Merman

• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

  Author: Herman Melville

• It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.

  Author: Thomas Meagher

• They're definitely having their moment now because they know how to work the system, and I know I have to be that way, too, in order to succeed. But it's never been more frustrating for me.

  Author: Rose McGowan

• You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

  Author: John McCain

• Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

  Author: Francis Maude

• It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

  Author: Peter Marshall

• Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

  Author: Wynton Marsalis

• I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

  Author: Dan Marino

• You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

  Author: Orison Marden

• No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

  Author: Orison Marden

• We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

  Author: Greil Marcus

• Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

  Author: Og Mandino

• Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.

  Author: John Malkovich

• No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  Author: Ramana Maharshi

• And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

  Author: James Madison

• The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

  Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

• No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

  Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

• It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

  Author: Arthur Machen

• It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

  Author: Peter Lynch

• People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed.

  Author: Frank Luntz

• Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes".

  Author: Clare Luce

• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Author: Henry Longfellow

• I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed.

  Author: Linda Lingle

• Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

  Author: Blanche Lincoln

• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed.

  Author: Rush Limbaugh

• So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

  Author: Rush Limbaugh

• Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed.

  Author: Saunders Lewis

• If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

  Author: Alan Lewis

• It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

  Author: George Lewes

• I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.

  Author: Joanna Levesque

• You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

  Author: James Larkin

• Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.

  Author: Burt Lancaster

• It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

  Author: Charles Kuralt

• The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

  Author: Michael Korda

• To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

  Author: Michael Korda

• The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

  Author: Michael Korda

• I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

  Author: Horst Koehler

• The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

  Author: Donald Knuth

• The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

  Author: Bobby Knight

• The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

  Author: Ben Kingsley

• We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.

  Author: Ron Kind

• In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

  Author: Nikos Kazantzakis

• Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

  Author: Dean Kamen

• To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

  Author: Abdul Kalam

• So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

  Author: Kim Jung

• To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

  Author: John Johnson

• No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

  Author: Muhammad Jinnah

• If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

  Author: Michael Jann

• But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.

  Author: Clara Hughes

• Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

  Author: Elbert Hubbard

• I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

  Author: Whitney Houston

• I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

  Author: Tom Hopkins

• Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.

  Author: Harri Holkeri

• It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

  Author: Paul Hindenburg

• No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

  Author: Napoleon Hill

• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  Author: Napoleon Hill

• The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

  Author: Eugen Herrigel

• Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

  Author: Robert Herrick

• Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

  Author: Seamus Heaney

• New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

  Author: J. Hayworth

• The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

  Author: Rutherford Hayes

• Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

  Author: Vaclav Havel

• Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

  Author: Jerry Harrison

• We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

  Author: Neil Harris

• Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

  Author: Edward Harriman

• We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

  Author: Stephen Harper

• I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

  Author: Christopher Hampton

• Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

  Author: Robert Hamilton

• Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

  Author: Francesco Guicciardini

• If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.

  Author: Heinz Guderian

• When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

  Author: Colin Greenwood

• To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

  Author: Alan Greenspan

• I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.

  Author: Nancy Greene

• Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

  Author: Al Green

• My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

  Author: Richard Grant

• To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.

  Author: Jennifer Granholm

• The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

  Author: Barry Goldwater

• I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

  Author: Vincent Gogh

• Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.

  Author: William Glasser

• It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

  Author: Jerry Gillies

• It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

  Author: Andre Gide

• To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

  Author: J. Getty

• I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.

  Author: Wally George

• Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.

  Author: Boy George

• We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

  Author: Jose Gasset

• When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.

  Author: James Garner

• I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

  Author: James Garfield

• Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

  Author: R. Fuller

• Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.

  Author: Anna Friel

• To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

  Author: Benjamin Franklin

• If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

  Author: Lukas Foss

• The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

  Author: Henry Ford

• Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.

  Author: Curt Flood

• Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

  Author: Gustave Flaubert

• He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse.

  Author: Terence Fisher

• The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

  Author: Ernst Fischer

• It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

  Author: Harvey Firestone

• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

  Author: W. Fields

• I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

  Author: Brett Favre

• It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.

  Author: Linda Evans

• The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

  Author: Philip Emeagwali

• I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.

  Author: Rahm Emanuel

• By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

  Author: Albert Ellis

• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Author: Thomas Edison

• It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

  Author: Arthur Eddington

• He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

  Author: Alexandre Dumas

• To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Author: Tony Dorsett

• The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

  Author: Bill Dixon

• Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

  Author: Benjamin Disraeli

• Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

  Author: Emily Dickinson

• There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.

  Author: Michael Dell

• I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has united us. Perhaps as a unit we can help each other get ahead, survive and succeed in this free world. And hey guys, let's not forget out manners!!

  Author: Doug Davidson

• In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

  Author: Anthony D'Angelo

• You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

  Author: Betty Cuthbert

• There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

  Author: Countee Cullen

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  Author: Quentin Crisp

• Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

  Author: Quentin Crisp

• You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.

  Author: Frank Crane

• Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

  Author: Peter Coyote

• If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

  Author: Marcelene Cox

• In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

  Author: Bill Cosby

• Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

  Author: Mason Cooley

• I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

  Author: Jack Cooke

• QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.

  Author: Scott Cook

• The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

  Author: Confucius

• To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

  Author: Charles Colton

• When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.

  Author: Dabney Coleman

• Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

  Author: Bram Cohen

• The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.

  Author: Benjamin Cohen

• It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

  Author: Winston Churchill

• To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

  Author: Kate Chopin

• From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

  Author: Dick Cheney

• When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

  Author: Joan Chen

• Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

  Author: Bobby Charlton

• If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.

  Author: Michael Chang

• We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.

  Author: Michael Castle

• As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.

  Author: Rene Cassin

• People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

  Author: Dale Carnegie

• Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.

  Author: Curtis Carlson

• Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

  Author: James Callaghan

• There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.

  Author: Dean Cain

• If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

  Author: Jane Byrne

• Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.

  Author: Steve Buyer

• I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

  Author: George Bush

• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

  Author: Robert Burton

• I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.

  Author: John Burns

• My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

  Author: John Bunyan

• The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

  Author: Pearl Buck

• In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

  Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski

• There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

  Author: Lakhdar Brahimi

• A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

  Author: Christian Bovee

• I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams.

  Author: Anatoli Boukreev

• The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

  Author: Nelson Boswell

• I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation.

  Author: Amar Bose

• America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

  Author: Kit Bond

• You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.

  Author: Michael Bloomberg

• You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

  Author: Rand Beers

• We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

  Author: Glenn Beck

• If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

  Author: Harry Banks

• If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment.

  Author: Harry Banks

• It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

  Author: Honore Balzac

• Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

  Author: Steve Ballmer

• The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

  Author: Emily Balch

• Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

  Author: Kenneth Baker

• I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

  Author: Johannes Bach

• Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?

  Author: John Audubon

• We fall forward to succeed.

  Author: Mary Ash

• That doesn't mean you have to have the lowest costs in the industry to succeed. But you need to make sure the activities and product attributes that increase your costs above the other guy bring in at least that much more in revenue, and hopefully more.

  Author: Gerard Arpey

• People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

  Author: George Allen, Sr.

• Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

  Author: Robert Allen

• Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

  Author: Samuel Alexander

• The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq.

  Author: Mohammed Aldouri

• Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

  Author: Madeleine Albright

• Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

  Author: Maude Adams

• Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

  Author: Abdallah Abdallah II

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