Succeeded Quotes
444 Succeeded quotes by 384 unique authors
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Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell harmless at his…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
— Saul Bellow
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when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy…
— Charles Bukowski
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The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether…
— George R. R. Martin
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Warlock D. J. Prod of Didsbury says: “My wife used to sneer at my feeble charms, but one month into your fabulous Kwikspell course and…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.
— Jim Butcher
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What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no…
— Naomi Wolf
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He is kind of like Yoda... 'There is only do or do not. There is no try.'" That actually succeeded in making her laugh through…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined,…
— Félix J. Palma
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Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department.…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The punch connected, but (1) Colin forgot to close his fist, so he was slapping not hitting, and (2) instead of slapping TOC, he ended…
— John Green
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Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there's a case Where…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.
— Julian Barnes
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Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.
— Jane Austen
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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In…
— Julian Barnes
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Yesterday he told me he thought I would have to pretend to be weak, but he was wrong. I am weak already. I brace myself…
— Veronica Roth
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You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die of shock if…
— Veronica Roth
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Fortunately Jesus didn't leave [the disciples]-or any of us-without hope or direction. Where we fail, Jesus succeeded. The only One who as able to recognize…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Every time I think I’m getting wiser, more in control of my actions, I go slamming into a situation that makes me excruciatingly aware that…
— Karen Marie Moning
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We're going on a, um, windmill tour later this week." If I'd wanted to shut them all up, I'd definitely succeeded. They all looked stunned.…
— Richelle Mead
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