Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end.
A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.
and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world
Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded!
Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.