The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Michael Korda

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Michael Korda

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Igor Stravinsky

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.
Hu Shih

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
Samuel Alexander

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
Ludwig von Mises

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
Neil Patrick Harris

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
James A. Garfield

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
Ramana Maharshi

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
Abdallah II

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
Whitney Houston

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
Hedy Lamarr

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William Hazlitt

Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.
James Callaghan

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.
Paul von Hindenburg

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.
Madeleine Albright