Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
Mason Cooley

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
Lal Bahadur Shastri

I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.
Stuart Pearce

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
Charles Caleb Colton

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.
Lukas Foss

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield

Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed.
Dennis Hastert

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
Donna Tartt

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.
Robert G. Allen

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.
Frank Crane

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.
Leo Kottke

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.
Tim O'Reilly

People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed.
Frank Luntz

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Nestell Bovee

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
Lakhdar Brahimi

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
Ben Kingsley

I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.
Jody Watley

When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.
Ethel Merman

To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
Jennifer Granholm

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
Wendell Phillips