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.
~By Kate Chopin ~
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
~By Maya Angelou ~
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.
~By Barack Obama ~
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
~By Earl Browder ~
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.
~By Arthur Eddington ~
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
~By Dean Koontz ~
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
~By William Congreve ~
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.
~By Earl Warren ~
If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.
~By Heinz Guderian ~
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
~By Voltaire ~
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
~By Tony Dorsett ~
To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.
~By Chin-Ning Chu ~
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.
~By James Garner ~
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.
~By Edward H. Harriman ~
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
~By Dale Turner ~
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
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.
~By Bill Dixon ~
Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed.
~By Saunders Lewis ~
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
~By Brian Tracy ~
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.
~By David Selby ~
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.
~By Michael York ~
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
~By Sydney Smith ~
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
~By W. C. Fields ~
We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.
~By Bob Taft ~
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
~By Henry Brooks Adams ~
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.
~By Anna Friel ~
Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.
~By Ray Conniff ~
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
~By Thomas J. Watson ~
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
~By Larry David ~
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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?
~By Chester W. Nimitz ~
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
~By Michael Eisner ~
If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
~By Harry F. Banks ~
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
~By John Mortimer ~
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
~By Ernest Renan ~
They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a "nut case" and they succeeded to some extent.
~By Ben Bradlee ~
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
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.
~By Michael Dell ~
I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.
~By Tom Selleck ~
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.
~By Hu Shih ~
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.
~By Betty Cuthbert ~
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
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.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
~By Maria Montessori ~
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
~By Nikos Kazantzakis ~
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
~By Pat Summerall ~
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.
~By Robert G. Allen ~
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.
~By Eugen Herrigel ~
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
~By William Winwood Reade ~
Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
~By Bob Black ~
This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.
~By David F. Houston ~
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
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.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
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.
~By Leo Kottke ~
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.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.
~By John Hawkins ~
If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
~By Carl Levin ~
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.
~By Gerard Arpey ~
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.
~By Slavoj Zizek ~
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.
~By Neil Sheehan ~
There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.
~By Frank Rich ~
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
~By Michael Korda ~
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
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.
~By Ben Stein ~
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.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
~By Joan Rivers ~
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
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.
~By Lionel K. Murphy ~
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
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.
~By Robert Shea ~
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
~By Denis Diderot ~
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
~By Octavio Paz ~
It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
~By Gore Vidal ~
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment.
~By Harry Banks ~
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
~By William Hazlitt ~
You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.
~By Frank Crane ~
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
~By Margaret Drabble ~
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