Succeed Quotes

"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

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

Thomas Edison, Inventor

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

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

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

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"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?"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"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"

George W. Bush, President

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

Quentin Crisp, Writer

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

Quentin Crisp, Writer

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

Andre Gide, Novelist

"A child who struggles in school needs someone to believe in them and provide the support they need to succeed"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

"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"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

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

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education"

Earl Warren, Judge

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

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

Napoleon Hill, Writer

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

Marcel Proust, Author

"Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"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"

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat

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

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

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

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it"

Cary Grant, Actor

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

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

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

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

Octavio Paz, Poet

"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"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"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"

David Selby, Actor

"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"

Barack Obama, President

"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"

James Madison, President

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

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

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

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

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

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"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"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"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"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

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

Joan Chen, Actress

"Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

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