Succeed Quotes

"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"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families"

Jim Bunning, Politician

"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"

James Garner, Activist

"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"

Madeleine Albright, Statesman

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

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

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

Jim Sensenbrenner, Politician

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

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"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"

Douglas Wilson, Entertainer

"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"

Kim Dae Jung, Leader

"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"

Ed Rendell, Politician

"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"

Bill Dixon, Musician

"Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed"

Corita Kent, Artist

"Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past"

Bill Dixon, Musician

"In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"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"

Linda Lingle, Politician

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

John Bunyan, Clergyman

"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"

Kenneth Baker, Politician

"To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job"

Chin-Ning Chu, Author

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

Greil Marcus, Author

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

Saunders Lewis, Poet

"We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans"

Neil Sheehan, Journalist

"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"

Francois Mitterrand, Statesman

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

David Merrick, Producer

"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"

Clara Hughes, Athlete

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

Arthur Machen, Author

"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"

Lionel K. Murphy

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

Eddie Perez, Politician

"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"

Michael Patrick Jann, Actor

"That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy"

Tavis Smiley, Author

"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"

Al Green, Musician

"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"

Maude Adams, Actress

"Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future"

Tim Johnson, Politician

"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"

Neil Patrick Harris, Actor

"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"

Richard E. Grant, Actor

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

Ruth Rendell, Writer

"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"

Eugen Herrigel, Philosopher

"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"

Rose McGowan, Actress

"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"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great"

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Educator

"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"

Thomas F. Meagher

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