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.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

When you're not concerned with succeeding you can work with complete freedom.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid freedom to fail freedom to succeed.