Quotes on Succeed

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

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