I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

From kindergarten to graduation I went to public schools and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927 I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose they will succeed.

Folks this government isn't too big to fail it's too big to succeed.

I want anyone who believes in life liberty pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force any person any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success I want that organization that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people of every background to succeed and prosper. Under this approach the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed as every past one has done in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is is that when we succeed we succeed because of our individual initiative but also because we do things together.

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

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed you won't be in your profession for long. In our society it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Of all that is good sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother if it is both he is twice blessed indeed.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and if possible funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

It's funny. You succeed but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

To succeed in life you need three things: a wishbone a backbone and a funny bone.

If at first you don't succeed find out if the loser gets anything.

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

If at first you don't succeed blame your parents.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things and I have succeeded fairly well.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.