Top 100 Quotes About Succeeds
#1. The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#2. Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#3. When it fails, they do call it madness, Lazarus. But when it succeeds, they call it genius.
Erika Johansen
#4. How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering lid of an averted eye
The smile that proves the parent to a sigh Thus doth Love speak.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#5. The Story Core Every compelling story has the following five elements: 1) A character 2) The character wants something 3) But something prevents him from getting what he wants easily 4) So he struggles against that force 5) And either succeeds or fails
Libbie Hawker
#6. We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
Gary Locke
#7. I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?
Michael J. Saylor
#8. 'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be commended, but he is not a hero in the classic sense until he deliberately lays his life on the line for a cause he deems to be greater than himself.
Jeff Cooper
#9. Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#10. Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost.
Margaret Thatcher
#11. Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#12. A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being
Jessie Burton
#13. I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#14. The man who succeeds proves himself an expert puzzle-solver, and the challenge of the puzzle is an important part of what usually drives him on.
Thomas S. Kuhn
#15. Only false values prevail, because everyone can assimilate them, counterfeit them (false thereby to the second degree). An idea that succeeds is necessarily a pseudo-idea.
Emil Cioran
#16. There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.
John McEnroe
#17. And woe succeeds woe.
Homer
#18. evolution is not progress, that there is no 'goal' or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution 'succeeds' if that change best adapts some leaf or branch of its tree of life to conditions of the universe.
Dan Simmons
#19. Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.
Angela Merkel
#20. Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#21. Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.
Savielly Tartakower
#22. When we are feeling at a loss in a poem, metaphor comes to the rescue. Metaphor is instructive, tactical, and interactive; it succeeds when its audience sees it as both strange and true. We need metaphor to make the error that allows us to reach beyond ourselves.
Ann Townsend
#23. A great painter does not content himself by affecting us with his masterpieces; ultimately, he succeeds in changing the landscape of our minds. Once
Orhan Pamuk
#24. It is she who listens to the rest of the world who fails, and it is she who has enough confidence to define success and failure for herself who succeeds.
Sophia Amoruso
#25. Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us.
Angela Bassett
#26. The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.
Ludwig Von Mises
#28. A heart that desires to give is the one that succeeds.
Sasha Azevedo
#29. I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules.
Barack Obama
#30. Find people who believe the world will be better when your company succeeds. That's an incentive that money can never buy.
Leah Busque
#31. [She] is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own, and with many men, I dare say, it succeeds. But, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art.
Jane Austen
#32. Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.
Malcolm Forbes
#34. Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.
Sigmund Freud
#36. And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#38. The perfect fight is one that is over before the loser really understands what is going on. The perfect defense is a counterattack that succeeds before the assailant discovers that he has bitten off more than he can chew.
Jeff Cooper
#39. I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
Doris Lessing
#41. Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.
Abraham Lincoln
#42. Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
Sophocles
#43. If this succeeds, he can be induced to live, as I have known many humans live, for quite long periods, two parallel lives; he will not only appear to be, but actually be, a different man in each of the circles he frequents.
C.S. Lewis
#44. The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.
John Edgar Park
#45. When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles.
Tupac Shakur
#46. An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
Elbert Hubbard
#47. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.
Henry Miller
#48. Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.
James Dobson
#49. If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.
Neil Bogart
#50. He who succeeds without books is in an inconsolable darkness, on a mountain without company, on a path without a crosier, in darkness without a guide.
Juan De Palafox Y Mendoza
#51. Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
Rick Bass
#52. When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.
Harvey V. Fineberg
#53. If he's after sledge I'd say he's a bottom, and a very sore one if he succeeds , cos your bro looks like he's got a third leg down there, it's so fucking huge. Got an eyeful once when I walked in on him while he was showering ...
Marita A. Hansen
#54. Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations
Ralph Charell
#55. The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it.
Prentice Mulford
#56. If your idea succeeds, everybody says you're persistent. If it doesn't succeed, you're stubborn.
Kevin Ashton
#58. When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are financially responsible for whether their store succeeds, they're going to have that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that's harder to get if headquarters is running things.
Fred DeLuca
#60. Trust me
with women worth the being won,
The softest lover ever best succeeds.
Aaron Hill
#61. We've got customers. We've got suppliers. We've got employees. We've got unions. We've got communities. We've got all of these things that go into making up whether a business succeeds or fails.
Gerry Schwartz
#62. Extreme patience and persistence are required,
Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed
The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.
John Ashbery
#63. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'
Alexander Payne
#64. Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.
Dave Hickey
#65. A clever woman succeeds in concealing her jealousy. Otherwise we men always feel so sure of ourselves ...
Kerstin Gier
#67. So age succeeds age, and dream succeeds dream, and of the joy of the dreamer no man knoweth but he who dreameth.
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
Olive Schreiner
#68. I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result.
Vincent De Paul
#69. That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.
Barbara Corcoran
#70. Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.
Malcolm Gladwell
#71. Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.
Lisa Kleypas
#73. Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.
Khalil Gibran
#74. Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#75. This experiment succeeds especially well, we think, if the letters written on the board form by their ensemble one single word.
Anonymous
#76. The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
Samuel Johnson
#77. It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#78. Thoughts don't have time and space, one need to hold them. The one who succeeds at them becomes a writer.
Santosh Avvannavar
#79. Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Tacitus
#80. We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.
Paul Ryan
#81. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
George Orwell
#82. If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.
John Barry
#83. When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
Philippe Petit
#84. I'm the sort of loser who succeeds really well and then drops a turd in the punch bowl.
Christopher Titus
#85. Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.
Barack Obama
#87. The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.
Evan Esar
#88. Sometimes a person who is utterly devoid of charm will try to create a good impression by using very elegant language; yet he only succeeds in being ridiculous.
Sei Shonagon
#89. The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully. I like throwing images together, which create meaning if you listen to it one time, but if you listen to it another time you might get a different meaning.
Iron & Wine
#90. I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
Joseph Joubert
#91. A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
Thomas Merton
#92. In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#93. There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.
Jostein Gaarder
#94. The stronger always succeeds.
Plautus
#95. When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.
Owen Jones
#96. When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.
Jonathan Swift
#97. It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release market place.
Jason Blum
#98. Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
Warren G. Bennis
#99. Human perversity, then, makes divisions of that which by nature is one and simple, and in attempting to obtain part of something which has no parts, succeeds in getting neither the part- which is nothing- nor the whole, which they are not interested in.
Boethius
#100. It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
George Washington
