Succeed

Famous quotes containing the word succeed:

    It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father’s craft.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    We can succeed only by concert. It is not “Can any of us imagine better?” but “can we all do better?”
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    So of the three methods: reason, sense, or a knowing combination of both, the last seems the least like a winner, the second problematic; only the first has some slim chance of succeeding through sheer perversity, which is possibly the only way to succeed at all.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)