Most Likely To Succeed Quotes

#1. The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.

Jerry Hall

#3. 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.

Gloria Stuart

#4. Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

Simon Bolivar

#5. I can say now that fear has no place in my daily life. I'm confident that I can handle whatever comes my way, just like the Carolyn Harris I was at fourteen--the karaoke loving captain of the Science Olympiad team, the steadfast friend, the girl who dreamed big...the Girl Most Likely to Succeed.

Lily Foster

#6. A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and I think that's what we need to change.

Sheryl Sandberg

#7. It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

Eddie Marsan

#9. When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

Sheryl Sandberg

#10. I would never know how good I was if I didn't have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor's office. I'm black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love.

Don King

#11. I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.

John Wooden

#12. Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

Albert Schweitzer

#13. Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

Joyce Brothers

#14. A relationship is more likely to succeed if positive attributes are confidently set in place and adhered to.

Delano Johnson

#15. I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams.

Anatoli Boukreev

#16. The act of trying to guarantee the success of an innovation is almost certain to make it less likely that it will succeed.

Seth Godin

#17. Nonviolent campaigns against authoritarian regimes are twice as likely to succeed as violent ones.

Anonymous

#18. If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#19. Help your customer succeed then they are more likely to help you succeed

Timi Nadela

#20. When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted 'Most Literary Boy.' I can assure you I was not voted 'Mostly Likely to Succeed.' I was voted 'Most Musical Boy.' And the music led to the poetry.

Robert Pinsky

#21. I don't always succeed in creating a delicious dinner for my family; I would, however, argue for the likely success of Taco Night. Who doesn't love a taco? Make it with veggie crumbles! Add fish! Have you tried ground buffalo? The results are always impressive.

Corin Tucker

#22. I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

Trip Adler

#23. Failure is not a pre-requisite for success. Already successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again than who failed

Jason Fried

#24. The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

Rain

#25. People who keep trying are more likely to succeed than those who give up.

S.A.M. Posey

#26. As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you're guaranteed to fail.

Ben Horowitz

#27. But, as so often happens, crimes committed with extraordinary boldness are more likely to succeed than any others.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#28. There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#29. The consistent and persistent man of average intelligence is more likely to succeed than an erratic and lazy genius.

Om Swami

#30. Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

Max McKeown

#31. I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at.

Park Dietz

#32. Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

James Russell Lowell

#33. And which new designers are most likely to have the right habits? The ones who have formed the right truces and found the right alliances. Truces are so important that new fashion labels usually succeed only if they are headed by people who left other fashion companies on good terms.

Charles Duhigg

#34. Moreover, if we could show, on general logical grounds, that the scientific quest is likely to succeed, one could not understand why anything like success has been so rare in the long history of human endeavours to know more about our world.

Karl R. Popper

#35. 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

#36. 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?

Chester W. Nimitz

#37. And whoever will take that motto and live by it will be likely to succeed. There's many a way to win, in this world, but none of them is worth much without good hard work back of it.

Mark Twain

#38. When outcomes are uncertain, most of us spend a great deal of energy ruminating, worrying, and second-guessing ourselves. Not only is this a waste of time, but it makes us less likely to succeed

Melanie Greenberg

#39. This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.

Jon Krakauer

#40. The more times and the more different things you try, the more likely it is that you will succeed.

Brian Tracy

#41. If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed.

Ridley Scott

#42. Have you ever helped anyone? Do you believe in help? If you can honestly answer yes to both questions, you're more likely to succeed in life than anyone else that can't.

Robin Sacredfire

#43. Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#44. Some kids win the lottery at birth; far too many don't - and most people have a hard time catching up over the rest of their lives. Children raised in disadvantaged environments are not only much less likely to succeed in school or in society, but they are also much less likely to be healthy adults.

James Heckman

#45. Difference makers know how to work loose, to model, fine-tune, and play with ideas before they execute them to find changes that are likely to succeed.

David Sturt

#46. Outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.

Seth Godin

#47. It's becoming clear that people who reject the worst of the current system are actually more likely to succeed. -Seth Godin, Linchpin

Sophia Amoruso

#48. Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages are more likely to end in divorce.

John M. Gottman

#49. How strongly do you believe in what you want to do? How prepared are you live and die for it? You are not likely to succeed when you always doubt your capacity to reach higher heights in your pursuits.

Israelmore Ayivor

#50. People who think and say we more often than I are a lot more likely to succeed.

Richard Branson

#51. Flood your imagination with vision ... if your deepest needs, values and internal beliefs agree with your direction, then you're more likely to succeed.

Robert G. Allen