#succeeded

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#federal #federal government #reducing #scope #size

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#failed #few #few men #half #know

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#back #because #become #could #degree

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#career #casualties #content #endeavors #even

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#succeeded #unjust #you

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#else #find #heart #somebody #succeeded

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#greeks #muses #only #professions #recently

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#demolish #doing #everything #fine #i

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#feel #i #i feel #i feel like #kept

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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