If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
~By Maya Angelou ~
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
~By Larry Flynt ~
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.
~By John McCain ~
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
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.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products.
~By Ron Johnson ~
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
~By Robert Herrick ~
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
~By Henri Poincare ~
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
~By Eldridge Cleaver ~
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.
~By Douglas Bader ~
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
~By Donna Tartt ~
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.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.
~By Paul Berg ~
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 ~
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
~By Miriam Beard ~
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".
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~
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 ~
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
~By Eddie Perez ~
We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.
~By Bob Taft ~
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 ~
Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
~By Seth Godin ~
If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
~By Henri Poincare ~
The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.
~By Clarence Budington Kelland ~
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.
~By Jim Bunning ~
I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.
~By Neil Cavuto ~
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
~By Sophocles ~
Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.
~By Robert Caro ~
Nothing succeeds like address.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
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.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.
~By Kenneth Grahame ~
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
~By Gore Vidal ~
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
~By Marcel Proust ~
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.
~By Boris Trajkovski ~
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 ~
Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.
~By Boy George ~
The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.
~By Eric Cantor ~
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 ~
This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
~By Betty Friedan ~
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.
~By Rick Schroder ~
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
~By Charles Dickens ~
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
~By Mike Schmidt ~
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.
~By George W. Bush ~
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.
~By Whitney Houston ~
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
~By Joseph Roux ~
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
~By John Leonard ~
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
~By Og Mandino ~
I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.
~By Horst Koehler ~
Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
~By John James Audubon ~
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
~By Gloria Stuart ~
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.
~By Greil Marcus ~
There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
~By Eberhard Weber ~
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has united us. Perhaps as a unit we can help each other get ahead, survive and succeed in this free world. And hey guys, let's not forget out manners!!
~By Doug Davidson ~
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
~By Charles Schwab ~
Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.
~By Tom Skerritt ~
Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.
~By Burt Lancaster ~
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 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 ~
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
~By Johannes Sebastian Bach ~
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
~By Harold Bloom ~
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.
~By Linda Lingle ~
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
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.
~By Clara Hughes ~
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.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.
~By Ethel Merman ~
Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
~By James Bovard ~
Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
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 ~
I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
~By Maria Montessori ~
There is no longer time for statements like "if only" or "we can't." We must and we will succeed. The only question now is how and when. I believe the time is now.
~By Bob Riley ~
There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
~By Bianca Jagger ~
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.
~By Wilfred Burchett ~
We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.
~By Iyad Allawi ~
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
~By George A. Romero ~
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 ~
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 ~
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
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