Succeeded Quotes
444 Succeeded quotes by 384 unique authors
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He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
— Patrick Süskind
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Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have…
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.
— Isaac Asimov
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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too,…
— Ann Brashares
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With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small…
— William Morris
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We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or…
— C.S. Lewis
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Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a…
— Frantz Fanon
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A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would…
— Charles Baudelaire
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He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die,…
— John Berendt
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I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
— Jean Cocteau
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However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their…
— Yukio Mishima
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Sometimes I remember that I can't always protect those I love." Under his fingers, her hair was soft and silky. She didn't try to tell…
— Nalini Singh
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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She…
— Oscar Wilde
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured,…
— Mircea Eliade
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It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones,…
— Henry Miller
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They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch…
— Virginia Woolf
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Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or…
— Henry David Thoreau
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