Succeeds Quotes
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde -
The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.
Evan Esar
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The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.
Sigmund Freud -
When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
Corrie Ten Boom -
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
Harold Bloom -
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.
Thomas Hobbes -
Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
Ovid -
Nothing succeeds like address.
Fran Lebowitz -
The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
George Orwell -
How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering lid of an averted eye – The smile that proves the parent to a sigh Thus doth Love speak.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain -
When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!
August Strindberg -
When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.
Steve Jobs -
Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
Sophocles -
Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.
Ernest Sosa
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In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.
John Stuart Mill -
There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.
Jostein Gaarder -
The many fail: the one succeeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
Bernard Berenson