Succeeds Quotations

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

Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.

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

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.

The When Women Succeed, America Succeeds economic agenda will enable women to achieve greater economic security, raise wages for women and their families, and better allow working parents to support and care for their families.

China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

My life has been a happy accident. Anybody who succeeds in anything should count their lucky stars, because that's the biggest element. It's not hard work; it's not necessarily talent.

One of the best things about the award season is that when a British film succeeds at the Oscars and BAFTAs, such as 'Slumdog Millionaire' in 2009 and 'The King's Speech' this year, the British public get right behind it with an immense sense of national pride.

If this continues, it can do real damage to core inflation, making it all the more important that the Fed succeeds in slowing the economy to ease inflation pressure.

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

If it succeeds in turning young people away from extreme right-wing and anti-Semitic thinking in time, it must be supported.

President Bush is committed to fostering an environment where innovation succeeds and small businesses can flourish.

Microsoft always succeeds in markets where we allow others to build on us as a platform. What we don't know is the kinds of composites that customers and partners will build on top of us.

Whoever succeeds him will be compared to Welch. He's kind of like Henry Ford, or Mozart in music.

Whether FON ultimately succeeds or fails, the development of low-cost or free-access broadband networks will undoubtedly continue. Broadband is of critical importance to anyone whose business model is tied to the Internet.

Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

We must pull together and work hard in ensuring that SADC succeeds in its agenda of development, economic cooperation and regional integration,

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.

When a robbery victim does not defend himself, the robber succeeds 88 percent of the time, and the victim is injured 25 percent of the time. When a victim resists with a gun, the robbery success rate falls to 30 percent, and the victim injury rate falls to 17 percent. No other response to a robbery -- from drawing a knife to shouting for help to fleeing -- produces such low rates of victim injury and robbery success.

To the extent that China succeeds in building its capital markets, it will increase the size of the Chinese economy and the world economy as well.

There is not future for Ivory Coast if the FPI succeeds in making a putsch against the peace process. That means war.

There is not a future for Ivory Coast if the FPI succeeds in making a putsch against the peace process. That means war.

(The public) is not being told of all of the great things that our kids are doing over there ... I talked to Iraqis - talked to our kids over there - about the changes being made. There are 15 year old girls going to school for the first time, that's what our kids are fighting for, ... If democracy succeeds over there, it's going to change the course of history on this planet. (The troops) are doing all they can to make that happen.

A treasure beyond price for fans of both the classic Hammett novel and the three (that's right, three) film versions of the doomed quest for a black bird. An incredible amalgam of photos, memos, letters, reviews, whatever, this will make fans of the book or the film gasp as one unexpected delight succeeds another. With this book, wonders really do never cease.

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

It's a story that fails as history, but that's why it succeeds as scripture -- because it's elliptical, ... The story has the ability to be perpetually now.

It's all just an indication of the old saying that nothing succeeds like success. If a market is booming, and people are looking for products, there will naturally be companies happy to provide them.

For every three mergers and acquisitions, one is done extremely well, one fails and one kind of narrowly succeeds or fails.

It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release market place.

It's potentially a good thing, if it succeeds in getting the public's attention on books and reading. We would hope some of the benefit would spill over to lesser-known titles.

It's potentially a big deal whether it succeeds or fails because there's implications in New York and there's implications nationally of initiatives like this.

The nylon-string guitar has no more powerful advocate on the current jazz scene than Ken Hatfield, whose virtuosic fingerstyle technique is matched by an exceptional compositional gift and who succeeds better than most at stretching the boundaries of his instrument while playing and writing music that feels as friendly and naturally straight-ahead as anything by Charlie Byrd or Wes Montgomery.

I want this to succeed for Tim, because if it succeeds for Tim, it succeeds for us, because we'll be spending more time together.

They hear what he has to deal with on the court. And they see how he succeeds in spite of it, and it endears them to him.

These passive investments abroad by Filipinos will come back once the country succeeds in carrying out meaningful governance reforms, and once we achieve political stability and sustained economic growth.

Nothing succeeds like success, ... Maybe when I'm no longer coaching, I may look back and say that '97 was my most memorable year. My wife put it best. Every Saturday was like Christmas.

If management succeeds in rejecting our contract, we will strike, and we will strike at a time and place of our choosing. It's truly an act of self-defense.

If Museveni succeeds in his desire to win a third term, we may be looking at another Mugabe and Zimbabwe in the making.

If my lawsuit succeeds the entire act will be declared unconstitutionally enacted.

If out of concern over cloning, the U.S. Congress succeeds in criminalizing embryonic stem-cell research that might bring treatments for Alzheimer's disease or diabetes - and Dr. Fukuyama lent his name to a petition that supported such laws - there would be real victims: present and future sufferers of those diseases.

If you have talent as a screenwriter, it will out. Nothing succeeds like perseverance. Never give up. Anyway, life never turns out the way you imagine, dream or plan it to. Or hadn't you heard?

If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.

He's totally consumed by racing, ... It's a passion. Everybody who succeeds highly is driven by what they're involved in, whether it's artists, writers, athletes or whatever.

I cannot blame certain senators if they are so determined to use all of their time and energy to block this genuine outpouring of support from the people because they will already become irrelevant once the People's Initiative succeeds in paving the way for a parliamentary system of government.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

The person who succeeds is not the one who holds back, fearing failure, nor the one who never fails... but rather the one who moves on im spite of failure. Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat. Author: Teddy Roosevelt

Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.

In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds