Famous quotes containing the word succeeded:
“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894)
“I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bombs admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconists.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
“I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after ones virtue, or ones courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)