William Arthur Ward Quotes

A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

William Arthur Ward

• Succeed
• Decided

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Always
  • Succeed
  • Doctor

• I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • Decided
  • Then
  • Sue

• However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Work
  • May
  • Succeed

• I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Myself
  • Goal
  • Succeed

• I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Me
  • Model
  • New York

• If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Fail

• I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Done
  • Lucky
  • Succeed

• I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Fashion
  • Everything
  • Decided

• I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Always
  • Win
  • Succeed

• So I decided on science when I was in college.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Science
  • College
  • Decided

• 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.

  

  Gary Locke
  • America
  • Government
  • Succeed

• If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Succeed
  • Possibilities
  • Proof

• With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nothing
  • Succeed
  • Without

• I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Done
  • Success
  • Desire

• Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • People
  • Up
  • Succeed

• I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • School
  • Drama
  • Acting

• People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • Goals
  • Succeed

• Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Moment
  • New York
  • Succeed

• Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Business
  • Down
  • Oil

• Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

  

  Aristotle
  • Character
  • Reason
  • Speaker

• In matters of dress we wish neither silk nor rags," President Hinckley said. "We seek for the clean look, call it a wholesome look, the bright and happy look of young men and women who walk with a sense of who they are, of what is expected of them, and of what they may become.

  

  Daniel H. Ludlow
  • Men
  • Wish
  • President

• Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.

  

  Walther Funk
  • Russia
  • Funk

• I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

  

  LaToya London
  • Play
  • Picture
  • Motion

• A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Succeed
  • Decided