Succeeds Quotes

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.

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

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

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.

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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

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.

If Obama succeeds in turning health insurance and funding for college into universal entitlements, he will have expanded Washington’s obligations on the scale of an LBJ or an FDR.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Isn’t it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

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

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

Nothing succeeds like success.

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.

We’re all in this together – when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.

We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it’s not the government that produces jobs, it’s the private sector.

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.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

Nobody succeeds on their own. Someone has to be there to show them the way, and if you give that experience to a person on the street – a gang member, a prisoner – he might succeed. That’s how it was for me.

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

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

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

The make-believe world of ‘The Black Tower’ succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.

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.

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

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.

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’m not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare’s stories are tragedies – right?

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

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

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

Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime’s ability to command and control its forces.

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative – not political clout – determines who succeeds.

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.

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.

After Fifth Harmony succeeds to the fullest of its capacity, one day we can go off and do our individual things.

If the film succeeds at the box office it is a commercial film. Otherwise it isn’t.

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.

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.

One of the best things about the award season is that when a British film succeeds at the Oscars and BAFTAs, such as ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ in 2009 and ‘The King’s Speech’ this year, the British public get right behind it with an immense sense of national pride.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Not all change and disruption succeeds, to be sure.

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.

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.

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