A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles Kettering

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.
David F. Houston

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
Eleanor Clift

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
Robert Shea

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
Gore Vidal

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
Robert Browning

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
Oprah Winfrey

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Christopher Columbus

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
Vladimir Kramnik

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.
Neil Bogart

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
William Congreve

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
John Leonard

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
Bob Black

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold MacMillan

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

Nothing succeeds like address.
Fran Lebowitz

Nothing succeeds like reports of success.
Sue Sanders