Top 100 To Succeed Quotes
#1. Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#2. Prejudice and bigotry are brought down ... by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.
Condoleezza Rice
#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. The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.
Jonah Hill
#5. Expect to succeed even before you start. All winners, no matter what their game, start with the expectations that they are going to succeed. Winners say, "I want to do this and I CAN do this", not "I would like to do this, but I don't think I can."
Denis Waitley
#6. But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.
Novak Djokovic
#7. I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.
V.E Schwab
#8. I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
Nancy Greene
#9. Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates had got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?
Greg Giraldo
#10. If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.
Lou Ferrigno
#11. Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed.
Nido R. Qubein
#12. A lot of people are afraid to succeed and don't want to fail but if you don't attempt, aren't you already failing in the same spot?
Behdad Sami
#14. Nowhere in the history of man has there existed someone with your particular set of experiences and skills, which means there exists a mode of play that you are unequivocally predestined to succeed in more than any other.
Chris Matakas
#15. Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers.
Sam Altman
#17. For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.
Laura Bush
#18. To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Michael Korda
#19. To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.
Ovid
#20. I have to have faith that we're going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not we're going to do it before it's too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.
Josh Fox
#21. In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.
Alexis Carrel
#22. When we watch pro golfers, we expect them to play well, to make the shots we know we can't, and to be entertaining. Their expectation, however, is very different. They expect to succeed!
Lorii Myers
#23. In everything we do, in order to succeed, we must believe in ourselves; that we are highly motivated achievers.
Ellen J. Barrier
#24. Child hunger and child obesity are really just two sides of the same coin. Both rob our children of the energy, the strength and the stamina they need to succeed in school and in life. And that, in turn, robs our country of so much of their promise.
Michelle Obama
#25. A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.
William Arthur Ward
#26. I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.
Lawrence Welk
#27. You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.
Nicolas Cage
#28. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
#29. If risk is the key factor to success and really smart people avoid it, you might not be dumb enough to succeed!
Garrison Wynn
#30. Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
Vaclav Havel
#31. Principle of Change #4: Planning for change is planning to succeed.
Brett Blumenthal
#32. Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life
whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor,
Jean Chretien
#33. If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott
#34. Our country does not guarantee you success
but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.
Deneen Borelli
#35. America demands invention and innovation to succeed.
Kit Bond
#36. In America, everything you need to succeed is within reach.
Jim Rohn
#37. I'm not claiming that we are the only guys who are going to succeed in the cloud. Others can succeed as well, just like in the previous generation.
Satya Nadella
#38. What makes you succeed must be possessed where it cannot be taken away. The internal capacity to succeed is more important than the external and temporal manifestation of success.
Archibald Marwizi
#39. You've still got to work toward your goal. Educate yourself. Make plans. Network with peers and colleagues. Join groups related to your goal or aspiration. You've got to put yourself into a position to succeed and then get out of the way. Allow it to happen.
Stacie Zinn Roberts
#40. Nothing appears to succeed like success in a world that is principally made up of failure.
Radclyffe Hall
#41. Obviously he had aspired too high, or been too impatient; but it was his nature to be aspiring and impatient, and if he was to succeed it must be on the lines of his own character.
Edith Wharton
#42. It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions.
Bobby Jindal
#44. Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
Wendy Kopp
#45. Adaptability is the name of the game; if you understand that you must now be adaptable and flexible, you will find a way to succeed in your career. If not, you will succumb to job market pressures.
Miles Anthony Smith
#46. To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.
Robert E. Ornstein
#47. When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
Dabney Coleman
#48. 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.
Edward H. Harriman
#49. Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.
Pat Buchanan
#50. People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Tony Robbins
#51. It's much easier, in the long run, to succeed than it is, in the short run, to fail.
Edmund Alexander Sims
#52. At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business.
Susan Wojcicki
#53. What do you need to succeed in business? You need the ability to think critically and communicate, and those things you can get just as easily out of a philosophy degree.
Matthew Stewart
#54. It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog - you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.
Steve Pavlina
#55. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
#56. Obviously we want to succeed. But on some level, success is irrelevant, because the process is inherently satisfying. Waking
Jeff Atwood
#57. There are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.
G.K. Chesterton
#58. 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
#59. My business is to succeed, and I'm good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#60. I definitely like not working sometimes. It's so fun. I just love sleeping in. In America, everyone is driven to succeed and wake up and do something. But I don't care. I want to sleep in. I want to relax. I don't want to have to get up every day.
Heather Graham
#61. In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
Biz Stone
#62. Then I'll have to succeed three times as hard as they want me to fail. You, of all people, should understand that.
Courtney Milan
#63. 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
#64. My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus Flower,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy Hunting,' 'Reclining Figure,' it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows' kid. That was my self-esteem.
James Burrows
#65. When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.
Cheryl Hughes
#66. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential ... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
#67. POPPY (on her mother not breastfeeding her during infancy): If you had breastfed me, it might have increased my IQ, and I'd have a lot of pressure to succeed. My average IQ means I can simply coast through life, so thank you.
Bijou Hunter
#68. Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.
Ken Blanchard
#69. Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power. Pick and choose things initially which are not impossible to succeed at. You need to develop the profile of a winner.
Frederick Lenz
#70. Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents.
Joseph P. Kennedy III
#71. Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.
Jodi Picoult
#72. 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
#73. I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.
Norman Mailer
#74. For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.
Paulo Freire
#75. Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.
Orison Swett Marden
#76. To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
Simon Sinek
#77. I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.
Samantha Morton
#78. Never be afraid to take a chance. Never let what anyone thinks of you control your destiny. Never, never, ever give up. Tomorrow is another chance to succeed.
Cherie' Waggie
#79. The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.
Esme Raji Codell
#80. The yoke is naturally and necessarily humiliating to all persons, except the one who is on the throne, together with, at most, the one who expects to succeed to it.
John Stuart Mill
#81. Its racist policies, for instance, were firmly rooted in the pre-Gilead period, and racist fears provided some of the emotional fuel that allowed the Gilead takeover to succeed as well as it did. Our
Margaret Atwood
#82. The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
Alex Haley
#83. Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed.
Archibald Marwizi
#84. Run and become.
Become and run.
Run to succeed in the outer world.
Become to proceed in the inner world.
Sri Chinmoy
#85. If you want to succeed in what you do, learn how to compromise with the people around you.
Paul G. Bailey
#86. Allow yourself to fail to allow yourself to succeed.
Ben Tolosa
#87. These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.
Confucius
#88. It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.
Neil Diamond
#89. We're all gifted with the opportunity to succeed. But you get further if you extend the hand of friendship.
Jimmy Little
#90. I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how to succeed in assignments the Lord has given us, and to give us opportunities to inspire and bear testimony in a horizontal way.
Clayton Christensen
#91. He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to succeed in comprehending and feeling in himself the general consciousness of mankind, he would collapse with a curse on existence; for
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. To succeed at anything, one must have a desire to dream of things some would think is impossible.
Ellen J. Barrier
#93. Mother always used to say, 'If you want to succeed in life, please the women. They are the real bosses. The men don't count.
P.G. Wodehouse
#94. It is possible to fail in many ways ... while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle.
#95. The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.
Michael Lewis
#96. There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#97. Determination is the strength needed to succeed.
Dan Gable
#98. Our government is committed to helping our young people develop the skills and training they need to succeed. Through our Summer Company program, students can launch a business, become employers, and gain an advantage in the highly competitive global economy - all while still in school.
Brad Duguid
#99. Nonviolent campaigns against authoritarian regimes are twice as likely to succeed as violent ones.
Anonymous
#100. In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.
Countee Cullen