【Succeed】 ,  【prosper】 ,  【thrive】 ,  【flourish】  can mean to attain or to be attaining a desired end.

【Succeed】  (see also FOLLOW ) implies little more than this. Both persons and things  【succeed】  when they are effective in gaining their purposes or ends, in particular or in general; the term implies an antithesis to fail .

【Prosper】 carries an implication of continued or long-continuing success; it usually also suggests increasing success. Only through the context is it clear whether the success is in the continuation or the increase of health, of wealth, or of well-being.

【Thrive】 adds the implication of vigorous growth; it often also implies succeeding noticeably because of or in spite of conditions or circumstances stipulated by the context.

【Flourish】 implies a period of vigorous growth and expansion (as in an institution, a business, an art, or a science) at or towards the peak of development or productivity and without signs of decay or decadence; it carries no suggestion of how far this growth will be maintained and sometimes by implication hints at a future decline. It is also used of an individual to indicate the period of his prime or time of high success.