Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mike Moreno

Anyone and everyone can and will succeed.

Marilyn vos Savant

If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.

LeBron James

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

Maya Angelou

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Mario Andretti

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

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.

Ted Turner

To succeed you have to be innovative.

Margaret Drabble

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

Marcel Proust

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.

Genghis Khan

It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

James Cash Penney

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

James Cook

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

Jon Lovitz

Nobody with a victim mentality will get anywhere, ever. They will never succeed.

Sophocles

Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

Stephanie Miller

Fox succeeds because it's entertaining. It's like a rightwing freak show.

Stella Adler

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.

Thomas B. Macaulay

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

Russell Brand

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

Thomas S. Monson

If you are persistent, you will succeed

Rich Mullins

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

Roger Ebert

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

Voltaire

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

William Carey

I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

Warren Buffett

An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Kent Beck

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

Sharad Pawar

I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

Neil Sheehan

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

Sheryl Sandberg

Nobody can succeed on their own.