We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.
Henny Youngman

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
William Glasser

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
Albert Ellis

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
George Bernard Shaw

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Mary Kay Ash

We fall forward to succeed.
Mary Kay Ash

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Marcel Proust

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Aristotle Onassis

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
Thomas J. Watson

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J. Paul Getty

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