Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
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It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.
Christian Dior
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Christopher Columbus
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles F. Kettering
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
Gore Vidal
Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.
Gore Vidal
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.
Henry Louis Mencken
[The] play of limbs succeeds the play of wit.
James Smith
The prominent always go to great lengths to maintain their incognito and are extremely disappointed when it succeeds.
Victor De Kowa
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
Bernard Berenson
Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.
John Wanamaker
They hear what he has to deal with on the court. And they see how he succeeds in spite of it, and it endears them to him.
Tyrone Slaughter
One thing I really like about the job is that we have a very clear path to betterment of the general public. If our project succeeds, and we're able to place payloads in orbit much cheaper than we do now, a lot of people win. We'll get a lot more research in space.
Danny Davis
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
Ramana Maharshi
There is not a future for Ivory Coast if the FPI succeeds in making a putsch against the peace process. That means war.
Sidiki Konate
We must pull together and work hard in ensuring that SADC succeeds in its agenda of development, economic cooperation and regional integration.
Festus Mogae
A majority of our staff are veterans, which is why the program succeeds as it does.
Betsy Tolstedt
Whoever succeeds him will be compared to Welch. He's kind of like Henry Ford, or Mozart in music.
Marvin Roffman
Men who love humanity have all dreamed at least once during their lives of bringing all their fellow men together in a state of carefree happiness. And only the world of the theater ever really succeeds in doing this.
Jean Jacques Gautier
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
William Congreve
For every community that survives and succeeds, there are probably five or 10 or more that fail. There are a lot of barriers.
Parke Burgess
It's potentially a good thing, if it succeeds in getting the public's attention on books and reading. We would hope some of the benefit would spill over to lesser-known titles.
Paul Aiken
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Mark Twain
A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Mark Twain
Being genuinely happy for the successes of another person adds joy to our day. When one person succeeds, it demonstrates to us all that success is possible. Celebrate often!
Rhoberta Shaler, Phd
The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.
Lloyd Jones
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
Margaret Drabble
Nothing succeeds like address.
Fran Lebowitz
Nothing succeeds like success.
Alexandre Dumas
I cannot blame certain senators if they are so determined to use all of their time and energy to block this genuine outpouring of support from the people because they will already become irrelevant once the People's Initiative succeeds in paving the way for a parliamentary system of government.
Raul Lambino
It's a story that fails as history, but that's why it succeeds as scripture -- because it's elliptical, ... The story has the ability to be perpetually now.
Bruce Feiler
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
Lord Acton
If my lawsuit succeeds the entire act will be declared unconstitutionally enacted.
Jim Zeigler
If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.
Ramana Maharshi
The nylon-string guitar has no more powerful advocate on the current jazz scene than Ken Hatfield, whose virtuosic fingerstyle technique is matched by an exceptional compositional gift and who succeeds better than most at stretching the boundaries of his instrument while playing and writing music that feels as friendly and naturally straight-ahead as anything by Charlie Byrd or Wes Montgomery.
Patrick Anderson
She threw really well today. I think the more she succeeds, the more confident she gets, and the stronger she's going to be when she's out on the mound.
Pat Willis
On the face of it, we are both capable of playing open, entertaining rugby to a high standard, but it may be that the team who adapts to something different, maybe some tight forward play, is the one who succeeds.
Rep. Rob Andrews
We wanted to have that feel of a smoky club and keep the balance so that a big show succeeds. It's all about satisfying the audience and dancers' demands.
Jason Gilkison
We're an open country with long-standing democratic traditions, and I think the Israelis will pretty much vote on who do they trust on the way to move forward. The legacy of Sharon will live on, irrespective of who succeeds him.
Daniel Ayalon
If that experiment succeeds, then the other parts of the Muslim Brotherhood will be clamoring for elections themselves and feel emboldened to achieve power and leadership through the ballot box.
Mouin Rabbani
These passive investments abroad by Filipinos will come back once the country succeeds in carrying out meaningful governance reforms, and once we achieve political stability and sustained economic growth.
Ernesto Herrera
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