Top 55 Succeeds Quotes

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it’s so embedded in what we do that we don’t have to think about.

My life has been a happy accident. Anybody who succeeds in anything should count their lucky stars, because that’s the biggest element. It’s not hard work; it’s not necessarily talent.

I think fashion can tell a story about celebrating difference, can talk about how different people are, how diverse people are – and for me, that’s where fashion really succeeds, when it tackles things to do with the world we live in.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

I am a fierce advocate for the economic empowerment of all women. In the Congress, I am one of the leaders of an initiative called ‘When Women Succeed, America Succeeds.’ It is an economic agenda for women aimed at making sure women have equal pay for equal work, paid sick leave, and affordable child care.

You have to show up when your show fails – or it succeeds. When you are enjoying the glory of success, you have to show up and still work hard because it may not last. You have to do your job with the same sincerity when you started and till you can actually do it with passion.

One’s perception of themselves has a much bigger role than has been acknowledged to determine who succeeds and who does not.

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.

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.

Look at how beautiful history is when liberty succeeds through the will of the people!

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

The way I look at it, 29 teams fail every year and one team succeeds.

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.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

If you’re lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That’s when rock n’ roll succeeds, and that’s what virtuosity is all about.

I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn’t just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it’s violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

The more diverse a research group or a business, the more robust it is, the more flexible it is, and the better it succeeds.

I was born to be a basketball player, not to be a guy who succeeds inside Goldman Sachs.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia’s interests, he often succeeds in his defiance and goes unpunished and unrepentant.

In El Salvador, when neighbors were disappeared, tortured or killed, people doubted their own knowledge of the victims, and worried there must have been some secret guilt involved to deserve such punishment! That’s how political terror succeeds.

For me, fashion succeeds when it says something about the times we live in.

I watch comedy on TV, and it’s too cutty for me. I get a little jarred, and it succeeds. It’s not like it’s not working, and I look at certain things, and it has the cutting… it’s not like I’d make terribly different cuts, but for some reason, it moves too fast for me.

If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

I think it’s because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it’s so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

Democrats have pushed for equal pay for women because we know that when women succeed, America succeeds.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between ‘reality’ and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it’s not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.

I wanted to talk about women artists but I wanted to depart from the biopic dynamic, that trope where a strong woman succeeds in a very oppressive world. This idea that ‘it can happen if you want.’

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.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that ‘nothing succeeds like success.’

Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

When someone around you succeeds, it does not mean they’ve taken that spot from you. What it means is that you are in the atmosphere of someone who is creating.

For everyone of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out.

If out of concern over cloning, the U.S. Congress succeeds in criminalizing embryonic stem-cell research that might bring treatments for Alzheimer’s disease or diabetes – and Dr. Fukuyama lent his name to a petition that supported such laws – there would be real victims: present and future sufferers of those diseases.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

When one tight end succeeds, everybody succeeds – like the tight ends were making under $10 million a year. To me that doesn’t make any sense.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction – more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

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.’