Quotes about Succeeded

This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded. Votes: 2

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. Votes: 2

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Votes: 2

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. Votes: 2

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it. Votes: 2

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Votes: 2

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. Votes: 2

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded. Votes: 2

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Votes: 2

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. Votes: 2

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Votes: 2

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. Votes: 2

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. Votes: 2

If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds. Votes: 2

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces. Votes: 2

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. Votes: 2

I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question. Votes: 2

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. Votes: 2

Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you. Votes: 2

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! Votes: 2

Although I still have a long way to go, I would like to become the pride of Asia. When another Asian artist enters the U.S. market, I would like him to think, 'There was an artist called Rain who succeeded in the U.S. market.' This is my dream. Votes: 2

My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures. Votes: 2

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear. Votes: 2

If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there. And, know that you aren't the only immigrant or the last to come to this country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible. Votes: 2

Eventually, I succeeded in everything Votes: 0

Christ - an anarchist who succeeded. Votes: 0

I've failed way more than I've succeeded. Votes: 0

I've succeeded at everything except my life. Votes: 0

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all. Votes: 0

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government. Votes: 0

Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded. Votes: 0

Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue! Votes: 0

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking. Votes: 0

For me, I haven't succeeded in any way whatsoever. Votes: 0

I've succeeded beyond what I ever thought I could. Votes: 0

I feel here that this time they have succeeded. Votes: 0

Mr Hitchens's policy has succeeded in making 10,000 new Bin Ladens. Votes: 0

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. Votes: 0

A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed. Votes: 0

I've succeeded a lot but there's still so much to do. Votes: 0

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded. Votes: 0

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded. Votes: 0

The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on! Votes: 0

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing. Votes: 0

We have never succeeded in slowing down our nuclear fusion reactors. Votes: 0

In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded. Votes: 0

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. Votes: 0

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. Votes: 0

There have been 44 constitutional referenda in Australia and only eight have succeeded. Votes: 0

It's always astounded me to have succeeded at having kids. It's crazy! Votes: 0

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create. Votes: 0

Had any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child? Votes: 0

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded. Votes: 0

I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works. Votes: 0

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. Votes: 0

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness. Votes: 0

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. Votes: 0

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it. Votes: 0

If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life. Votes: 0

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning Votes: 0

If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing. Votes: 0

If we succeeded, we will have the primary satisfaction of ending the war Votes: 0

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies. Votes: 0

One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded. Votes: 0

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning... Votes: 0

'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society. Votes: 0

I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes. Votes: 0

You succeeded at your attempts to make me Need you desperately to vindicate me Votes: 0

I want to be remembered as someone who tried their best and hopefully succeeded. Votes: 0

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last. Votes: 0

In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset. Votes: 0

You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it. Votes: 0

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded. Votes: 0

I have many unrecognized talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition. Votes: 0

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried. Votes: 0

The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy. Votes: 0

Some succeeded because they are destined to, but he succeeded because he was Determined to. Votes: 0

The highest achievers in the world have all succeeded because they mapped out their visions Votes: 0

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there. Votes: 0

When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere. Votes: 0

Positive thinkers never allow fears to intimidate them because they have seen themselves succeeded already. Votes: 0

The Democratic Party has succeeded so well that many of its members are now Republicans. Votes: 0

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded. Votes: 0

I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them. Votes: 0

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world Votes: 0

The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded. Votes: 0

Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse. Votes: 0

Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life. Votes: 0

It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed. Votes: 0

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded. Votes: 0

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work, Votes: 0

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. Votes: 0

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government Votes: 0

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. Votes: 0

How can I be sure I've succeeded, if I can't remember what I was trying to do Votes: 0

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. Votes: 0

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded. Votes: 0

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India. Votes: 0

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday. Votes: 0

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament. Votes: 0

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted. Votes: 0

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target. Votes: 0

Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology. Votes: 0

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span. Votes: 0

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded. Votes: 0

People whine, 'I haven't succeeded because I haven't had the breaks.' You create your own breaks. Votes: 0

When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind. Votes: 0

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there. Votes: 0

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work. Votes: 0

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Votes: 0

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded. Votes: 0

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor. Votes: 0

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. Votes: 0

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded. Votes: 0

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. Votes: 0

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. Votes: 0

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now. Votes: 0

Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love. Votes: 0

The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing. Votes: 0

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now Votes: 0

The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system. Votes: 0

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life. Votes: 0

When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune. Votes: 0

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded. Votes: 0

Even with the help of anti-Russian propaganda in the mass media, Germany has not succeeded in damaging this sympathy. Votes: 0

The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done. Votes: 0

The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat. Votes: 0

When you've succeeded, you'd say:'Indeed I'd to go through those hell before fit into all of this happiness. Votes: 0

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less. Votes: 0

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was. Votes: 0

Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives. Votes: 0

Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us. Votes: 0

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent. Votes: 0

But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something. Votes: 0

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks Votes: 0

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors. Votes: 0

Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change. Votes: 0

You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated. If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded. Votes: 0

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks. Votes: 0

Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself. Votes: 0

In seventy years, Russia's Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists. Votes: 0

Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both. Votes: 0

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded. Votes: 0

Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded! Votes: 0

The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness. Votes: 0

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded. Votes: 0

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Votes: 0

I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?" Votes: 0

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him. Votes: 0

The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley; Votes: 0

It's sometimes funny to watch some people doing something the wrong way but doing it confidently. Even more funny, they succeeded. Votes: 0

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story. Votes: 0

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. Votes: 0

When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded. Votes: 0

I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war. Votes: 0

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded. Votes: 0

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event. Votes: 0

When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.' Votes: 0

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering. Votes: 0

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters. Votes: 0

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence. Votes: 0

At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people. Votes: 0

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Votes: 0

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic. Votes: 0

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times. Votes: 0

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it. Votes: 0

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Votes: 0

I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog. Votes: 0

The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066. Votes: 0

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires. Votes: 0

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires." Votes: 0

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him. Votes: 0

...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out Votes: 0

In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire. Votes: 0

Those who have come to an impasse should examine their original intentions; those who have succeeded should note where they are heading. Votes: 0

I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon. Votes: 0

From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there's a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded. Votes: 0

I feel less adrenaline in my body now, but more in my head. I tried to be at my best, and I succeeded. Votes: 0

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels. Votes: 0

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel. Votes: 0

And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model. Votes: 0

Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time. Votes: 0

It's so funny you judge me arrogant after I succeeded.You didn't help me at all when I was so poor and needy. Votes: 0

If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low. Votes: 0

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them. Votes: 0

While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower. Votes: 0

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded. Votes: 0

I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world. Votes: 0

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns. Votes: 0

Anybody who believes the surge has not succeeded, militarily, politically and in most other ways, frankly, does not know the facts on the ground. Votes: 0

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. Votes: 0

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading. Votes: 0

I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded. Votes: 0

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. Votes: 0

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life. Votes: 0

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore. Votes: 0

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise. Votes: 0

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before. Votes: 0

If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity. Votes: 0

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. Votes: 0

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch. Votes: 0

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching. Votes: 0

To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded. Votes: 0

I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and I do feel I succeeded. Votes: 0

Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference. Votes: 0

No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power. Votes: 0

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past. Votes: 0

You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded. Votes: 0

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity. Votes: 0

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina. Votes: 0

I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded. Votes: 0

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks. Votes: 0

My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that. Votes: 0

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil? Votes: 0

I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan. Votes: 0

This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative book. Votes: 0

I came from a very poor background. I came from children's homes; I came from a violent family, and against all the odds, I succeeded. Votes: 0

Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man towards the unseen that it become insensible to the barriers of time and space. Votes: 0

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives. Votes: 0

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness. Votes: 0

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me. Votes: 0

I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a stronger and bigger government. Votes: 0

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that. Votes: 0

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point! Votes: 0

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. Votes: 0

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported. Votes: 0

If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society! Votes: 0

He wasn't someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror. Votes: 0

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you. Votes: 0

And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record. Votes: 0

He's been dead for so many years, but I'm still trying to impress him. That's what gave me my drive. 'Look at me, Dad, I've succeeded.' Votes: 0

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. Votes: 0

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac. Votes: 0

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet. Votes: 0

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Votes: 0

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering. Votes: 0

Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity. Votes: 0

If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program. Votes: 0

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves. Votes: 0

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts. Votes: 0

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement. Votes: 0

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us. Votes: 0

I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded. Votes: 0

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal. Votes: 0

Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end. Votes: 0

I've been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics. Votes: 0

That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come with thanksgiving to God for its success. Votes: 0

An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment. Votes: 0

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'? Votes: 0

On the other hand, if people are made safer, more efficient, more comfortable "“ or just plain happier "“ by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded. Votes: 0

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. Votes: 0

I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-term. Votes: 0

Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived. Votes: 0

I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages. Votes: 0

Cool thing about Fidel Castro is that the CIA and the mafia - which are both terrible organizations that tried to murder him again and again - haven't succeeded. Votes: 0

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same. Votes: 0

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. Votes: 0

If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument. Votes: 0

I also think it's crucial to convey that the [Black] Movement largely succeeded because of the unwavering dedication of young people willing to risk their comfort, their safety, their lives. Votes: 0

AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires 'thinking' but has failed to do most of what people and animals do 'without thinking'-that, somehow, is much harder. Votes: 0

You know what the left has succeeded in doing, they have succeeded, in terms of the vernacular, the lexicon, they've redefined the word "immigration" and to tell everyone we're anti-immigrant. Votes: 0

I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded. Votes: 0

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung. Votes: 0

When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder. Votes: 0

That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity. Votes: 0

Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them with a lot of commercial success, has. Votes: 0

In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there. Votes: 0

After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. Votes: 0

Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people. Votes: 0

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself. Votes: 0

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group. Votes: 0

I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded. Votes: 0

No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised. Votes: 0

It may come as an extraordinary shock to you but you're the only woman who has ever succeeded in getting under my skin. It could be because you're a raving lunatic. Votes: 0

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Votes: 0

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake. Votes: 0

Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, "I can do that". One reason I've succeeded is that I have that naïve sense of entitlement. Votes: 0

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture. Votes: 0

There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those. Votes: 0

There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season. Votes: 0

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God. Votes: 0

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government. Votes: 0

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader. Votes: 0

But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. Votes: 0

In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments. Votes: 0

The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on. Votes: 0

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mother's clothes, I feel that I have succeeded. Votes: 0

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded. Votes: 0

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded. Votes: 0

I get a lot of credit for having succeeded as a Latina in this world, and I am not that. I appreciate it, but I'm Italian. And that does happen a lot. Votes: 0

It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism. Votes: 0

I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers. Votes: 0

And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb. Votes: 0

Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen. Votes: 0

The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel - the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude. Votes: 0

You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the plans of One who knows more than we do have succeeded. Votes: 0

Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love. Votes: 0

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded. Votes: 0

Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded. Votes: 0

I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded. Votes: 0

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage. Votes: 0

But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded. Votes: 0

German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche, coupled with the ingenious and mighty leadership of Hitler and his comrades. Votes: 0

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. Votes: 0

CSETI (The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has in the past 18 months succeeded in intentionally establishing contact with extraterrestrial spacecraft, on two occasions at very close range, and with multiple witnesses present. Votes: 0

Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to end discrimination against gays in the military. Votes: 0

A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying. Votes: 0

It's too easy to find people who've failed and are embittered. The best thing you can do is hang around people who've succeeded and are happy doing what you want to do. Learn from them. Votes: 0

I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who started with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the answers and they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else can do that I can't do. Votes: 0

The ability to engage the reader, to stir feelings deep within their being, is the ultimate goal of erotic fiction. When the reader takes the place of the characters in my story, I have succeeded Votes: 0

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness. Votes: 0

A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost. Votes: 0

A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity. Votes: 0

Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal ... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of Antiquity not a single Latin author succeeded in stating it coherently. Votes: 0

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail. Votes: 0

It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work. Votes: 0