Top 100 You Can't Succeed Quotes
#1. You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.
Michael Eisner
#2. Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.
Abdul Kalam
#3. When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.
Marcel Proust
#4. Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.
Bobby Charlton
#5. There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and that you're evil and all this nonsense.
Frederick Lenz
#7. You can't succeed coming to the potluck with only a fork.
Dave Liniger
#9. Focus on your dream and never quit. It is always too soon to quit. If you quit, you can't succeed. By achieving your dream you will be an inspiration to others. You will set the example and make an enormous impact on the world.
Rudy Ruettiger
#10. (1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3) Translate into English. (4) Then illustrate by examples that are important in real life (5) Burn the mathematics. (6) If you can't succeed in 4, burn 3. This I do often.
Alfred Marshall
#11. You can't fail if you don't quit.
You can't succeed if you don't start.
Michael Hyatt
#12. You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
Rand Beers
#13. You can't eat coconut without breaking its shell; you can't succeed without breaking the cycle of failure.
Vinita Kinra
#14. You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.
Tony Robbins
#15. Don't give up because of the dark days. Succeed in spite of them. The dark days make the bright days seem even brighter. So bright you can hardly stand it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#16. Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed.
Mary Kissel
#17. You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help.
Richard Hanna
#18. You don't like people seeing you." My eyes met him then. "I beg your pardon?" His eyes roamed my fresh face. "You can't hide behind makeup. You can try, but you won't succeed. Not with me." He paused then said, "I see you.
Belle Aurora
#19. If you are determined to succeed - just remember - success is sealed in a can, it can't be bought, but it must be in your thought, for if you can - you can.
Ency Bearis
#20. Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.
P.T. Barnum
#21. If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
Aaliyah
#22. Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.
Luigi Pirandello
#23. In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.
Mike Tyson
#24. You can't expect a relationship to succeed based on the love you felt at the beginning. It succeeds because you continue to build on it until the end.
Adriana Locke
#25. What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons in the work. If you can do that, then you'll succeed in the world.
Chuck Palahniuk
#26. No matter what... don't give up. Don't stop believing in yourself and in what you can do, because you are strong and you are capable. Prove them wrong! Don't let them win! Remember when you are at your lowest low - there's only one way to go now... and that is UP!
Steven Wolff
#28. Oh, oh human stupidity, probably that's why I don't succeed with mankind, somebody says "Can I stop by?" you answer "Okay..." or "Sure""... but why and saying what you are doing in case he hasn't asked you?
Deyth Banger
#29. You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.
LeBron James
#30. Study the business you think you might like. Satisfy yourself that they will suit your needs. There are so many alternatives available - don't be too quick to choose. Just about any business can fail and any can succeed.
Paul Clitheroe
#31. Don't try to hurt anyone, you will not succeed because you can hurt only yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#32. The moment you choose your vision, great confliction comes along. You have confliction even if you don't choose the vision. Our soul grows not by living life within a small confliction, but rather living with big conflictions inside a big vision. A soul with a vision can succeed.
Ilchi Lee
#33. With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.
Jack Nicholson
#34. Giving up is not an option if you want to succeed. If you really want to be in business, and it's something you can't live without, you just have to keep going. And one day that shot will be given to you.
Kellee Stewart
#35. Not believing in what you have to sell This is blindingly obvious but perhaps is the number one reason why many salespeople do not succeed. Not even the most accomplished actor can consistently get away with selling something they fundamentally don't believe in.
Simon Bozeat
#36. The theme that runs through my movies is the fact that we create barriers for ourselves ... because we say, Well, I can't do that. But in the end, you can't do it unless you can imagine yourself succeeding at it.
George Lucas
#37. Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job, it's going to be a decade of hell.
Eric Bolling
#38. You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
Ben Horowitz
#39. You never can't put bad down, there is always something tricky... nothing is so easy if it's easy. It's in the state of possibility of the ability to be in a trap which they want to put you... so they succeed. - Better Next time think!
Deyth Banger
#40. You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.
William J.H. Boetcker
#41. 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
#42. You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.
Gore Vidal
#43. Never give up! People don't understand how persistent you have to be. You come up against an obstacle and you have to find a way of moving forward. You take detours, navigate between the obstacles and make it happen. Unless you are very strong and convinced you can succeed, you will be swept away.
Frank Lowy
#44. The best way to beat somebody is to show them who you are, and to succeed by doin' what they say you can't.
Tamera Alexander
#45. If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.
Warren Buffett
#46. I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?
Kevin O'Leary
#47. You will meet many people who try to harm you, pull you down or back stab you. Don't worry! They can't really succeed unless you allow them to. Fill your aura with so much love and energy that that it will disallow any efforts to harm you!
Neelam Saxena Chandra
#48. You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
Cyndi Lauper
#49. Fail. But I also believe this: One bold prayer can accomplish more than a thousand well-laid plans. So go ahead and plan, but make sure you circle your plans in prayer. If your plans aren't birthed in prayer and bathed in prayer, they won't succeed.
Mark Batterson
#50. Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.
Sarah Brady
#51. I define success by personal growth; if you don't continue to grow, you can't continue to succeed.
Tabatha Coffey
#52. My message to students is that if you want to become an entrepreneur and save the world, definitely don't skip college. But go to a school that you can afford. You'll be freed from the chains of debt and succeed on your own ambition and merit.
Vivek Wadhwa
#53. Your trying to take them away from me, and I can't let you do that.I'm not ready to let go."
"Exactly what am I taking away?"
"My family."
"Brenna ... "
She wouldn't let him continue. "You are trying to take them away, aren't you? And if you succeed, what will I have left?"
"Me.
Julie Garwood
#54. If you can't quit no matter how hard you try, then you have a chance to succeed.
Laura Fitton
#55. Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.
Harvey MacKay
#56. I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.
Dean Koontz
#57. Just put your best foot forward. Be appreciative of the gift that God has given you. Regardless as to what your situation is, where you are living, you can succeed. Doesn't matter what it is. Do and God will take you to the next level. Somebody will see you, someday, one day, if you believe.
Patrice Lovely
#58. Must is the word ... You can not fail if you resolutely determine that you will not ... Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important that any other thing.
Abraham Lincoln
#59. Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.'
'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#60. I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#61. You can't take the team to the next level when you haven't mastered the skills it takes to succeed on a personal level.
John C. Maxwell
#62. When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't
James Gould Cozzens
#63. If you want a show to succeed, you're going to have to have a certain amount of people watch who are non-black and non-Latino. If you can't cross over, you don't belong on TV. That's not just me saying it. That's just the way it is.
George Lopez
#64. To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.
Cary Grant
#65. Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.
Stephen Hawking
#66. Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.
Brennan Manning
#67. I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.
Tom Selleck
#68. I want to see a world in which every entrepreneur has access to the resources he or she needs to succeed, and where through the power of supportive communities - that means you and me - every resource can be made available.
Jessica Jackley
#69. We can't all succeed following the same path as successful men followed. Each person has it's own destiny. You might get stuck at any stage if it's not your way but you'll fly away if it's yours. Follow your mind and take serious anything you do.
Amen Muffler
#70. Take courage. You do not yet see your own abilities because you have never been tested. You have never demonstrated to yourself or anyone all that you can do. Put your fears aside and trust that you can succeed in the challenges that lie ahead. - King Hercalon IV, Former King of Oomaldee
L.R.W. Lee
#71. When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair.
Ben Affleck
#72. You can do a couple things and succeed, or you can try to do fifteen things and fail at all of them.
Penelope Douglas
#73. You can succeed and get what you want. You must want it and believe it with all the profusion of your heart and act with energy towards its realization
Melki Rish
#74. If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.
Chris Prentiss
#75. Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.
Carlos Castaneda
#76. Entrepreneurs embody the promise of America: the idea that if you have a good idea and are willing to work hard and see it through, you can succeed in this country. And in fulfilling this promise, entrepreneurs also play a critical role in expanding our economy and creating jobs.
Barack Obama
#77. You can only succeed. You cannot fail. Failure is impossible; it is an illusion. Nothing is a failure. Nothing. Everything moves the human story, and hence the process of evolution, forward. Everything advances you on your journey.
Neale Donald Walsch
#78. You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.
Bill Walsh
#79. Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the Nazis in a concentration camp, to take an extreme case ...
Noam Chomsky
#80. Think of it like this. If you are sad because you can't have something you want - maybe a book or a toy - you can do one of two things: you can do your best to get it, or you can stop wanting it. Either way, if you succeed, you won't be sad any more.
E.H. Gombrich
#81. My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody.
Maria Shriver
#82. 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
#83. I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.
William Kamkwamba
#84. You can be the one - in - a - million. Don't be discouraged by the odds to Succeed.
David Beckham
#85. Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn't work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don't ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed.
Joyce Meyer
#86. If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.
Bruce Fordyce
#87. Talent alone can't give you a gold medal.There is practise,there is hard work and there is a will to succeed.
Keith Peters
#88. I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'
Henry Paulson
#89. You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.
Sam Walton
#90. If you haven't done something amazing, don't forget to try. the worst that can happen is you fail, and then you can just try again until you succeed. those words don't work on me now, but just try to remember them
Esther Earl
#91. You can't be successful if you are good at hiding yourself! Be success minded; think about uncovering what you know, what you have, and what you have to know for the comfort, inspiration and enlightenment of others!
Israelmore Ayivor
#92. In order to succeed, you can't be afraid to fail. Just do it and don't let anybody tell you you can't.
Faith Hill
#93. It's different as a coach because you feel responsible for a lot of people. Even though you don't take a shot, you don't get a rebound, you feel like you just want people to succeed and you want to help them any way you can.
Steve Kerr
#94. Motivation doesn't come from empty words, because words fade over time. If persistance and perservance is what you live then what motivation do you need? Your dreams can turn into goals and your goals can turn into a reality. You are all the motivation you need to succeed.
Gabriel Mason
#95. Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
Natalie Massenet
#96. The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.
George Matthew Adams
#97. If anything should offend a minority, that's it: a bunch of elitists telling them, 'You can't possibly succeed unless we give you a head start.' And yet the politicians who say that always get the bulk of the minority vote.
Larken Rose
#98. Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything
T. Harv Eker
#99. If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do.
Tim Gunn
#100. I think swagger's a confidence. It's a confidence of you knowing that you work hard for your success. A lot of times, you can't develop swagger if you haven't worked hard to succeed.
Amar'e Stoudemire
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