Succeed Quotes

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

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

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

Ronald Reagan, President

"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"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"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"

Confucius, Philosopher

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

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

Og Mandino, Author

"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"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

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

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"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"

Samuel Smiles, Author

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

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

Mason Cooley, Writer

"We fall forward to succeed"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"They succeed, because they think they can"

Virgil, Writer

"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"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"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"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"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"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"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"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you'll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"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"

Henry Ford, Businessman

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

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"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"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"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"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"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""

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

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

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius"

Joseph Addison, Writer

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

James Cash Penney, Businessman

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

Theodore Roosevelt, President

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

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

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

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

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

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"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"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"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"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

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