I don't know what drives me to succeed.

- Adam Sandler

I never, in anything I've ever done, tried to get you to like it. I was never going to succeed at that. That's not the way most entertainment is made. Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

- Albert Brooks

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

- Aristotle Onassis

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

- Andre Gide

Something that's fun for me is a challenge. When you have a challenge and you take on that challenge and succeed, that's the best feeling.

- Amy Lee

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

- Albert Ellis

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

- Al Gore

I don't think the way to succeed is by doing something aggressive. Aggression is weak-minded.

- Agnes Martin

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

- Abraham Lincoln

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

- Abraham Lincoln

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

- Abraham Lincoln

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

- Abraham Lincoln

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

- Abraham Lincoln

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

- Abraham Lincoln

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

- Abraham Lincoln

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

- Abdullah II of Jordan

Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.

- Aaron Sorkin