#succeeds

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

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Charles Kettering

#failures #his #inventor #once #practice

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#does #enslaving #european #feel #free

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#friend #little #me #something #succeeds

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

— Bob Black

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

— David F. Houston

#any #barley #crop #feed #grain

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding. ↗

— John Cleese

#always #america #because #chances #else

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

#does #down #extent #fall #go

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#devil #failure #god #long #man

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about. ↗

— John McEnroe

#another #book #care #deeply #going