Famous Quotes & Sayings

It teaches you to be considerate of people, to work together as a team to succeed and play off each other's strengths.

You can't succeed coming to the potluck with only a fork.

Iris Murdoch

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Maria Ressa

You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

Potter Stewart

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

Jenny Holzer

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

Jenna Jameson

I am very driven by fame and success; I like to succeed at everything I do.

Harold Bloom

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

Burt Lancaster

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death

Gretchen Bleiler

I'm fearful when I push myself. It's a tough thing to do, but you need to acknowledge that you have what it takes to succeed.

Henry David Thoreau

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.

Horace

Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

Ernie Kovacs

Beat it to death if it succeeds.

Ernie Kovacs

There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.

Ethel Merman

When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest

Christian Dior

It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

Jerry Gillies

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Jean de La Fontaine

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

Greil Marcus

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

Horace

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Gene Tierney

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

Francesco Guicciardini

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Francesco Guicciardini

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

We all want to see these negotiations succeed so that by the end of the year, we can welcome Vietnam into the WTO.

Nick Frost

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

There's nothing that says you have to succeed in the same way as someone else. In fact, there's nothing that says you must define success in the same way as someone else.

When you're not afraid to fail, you'll most certainly have the confidence to succeed.

Michel de Montaigne

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

Mason Cooley

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Michael Franzese

I say, "This is my objective" and when I stick to it, I succeed. When I deviate, I'm in trouble. Do what you do best and delegate the rest. There are things I do better than others, and there are things I'm horrible at and I delegate those.