Succeed Quotes

"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"

Bobby Charlton, Athlete

"America demands invention and innovation to succeed"

Kit Bond, Politician

"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed"

Sarah Brady, Activist

"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"

Terence Fisher, Director

"I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November"

Stephanie Herseth, Politician

"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"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

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

Joseph Roux, Clergyman

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

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

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

Vaclav Havel, Leader

"If the tanks succeed, then victory follows"

Heinz Guderian, Soldier

"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"

Gerard Arpey, Businessman

"The way to succeed is to double your error rate"

Thomas J. Watson, Scientist

"I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed"

Rick Schroder, Actor

"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"

Nichelle Nichols, Musician

"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"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"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"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"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"

Robert Shea, Author

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

Francis Maude, Politician

"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"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"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"

Fareed Zakaria, Journalist

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

Bob Taft, Politician

"The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"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"

Dean Cain, Actor

"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"

Frank Luntz, Politician

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

Frank Crane, Clergyman

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

Benjamin Cohen, Journalist

"Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job"

Leo Kottke, Musician

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

Colin Greenwood, Musician

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

Jody Watley, Musician

"Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death"

Burt Lancaster, Actor

"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"

Countee Cullen, Poet

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

Boy George, Musician

"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"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

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

Ali ibn Abi Talib, Clergyman

"You always succeed in producing a result"

Tony Robbins, Author

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

Bobby Knight, Coach

"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"

Lal Bahadur Shastri, Leader

"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"

Whitney Houston, Musician

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