Best 873 quotes in «succeed quotes» category

... a true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.

Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

Because I'm not attached to the outcome, I don't have to worry whether I succeed or fail.

Before a leader can be accepted, let alone succeed, autonomous professionals must agree to be influenced by that person.

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding

Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

Be passionate. If you are passionate, you will ultimately succeed.

Books succeed; and lives fail.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: channeling resources bilked from the general public to politically organized and influential interests groups.

By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.

But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

Came to the world at a time when it was in need of a villain. An asshole, that role I think I succeed in fulfilling. Dont think I ever stopped to think I was speaking to children. Everything was happening so fast, it was like I blinked, sold three million.

By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.

Changing things is not easy, and I say this without any irony. It is not that someone does not want to, but because it is a hard thing to do. Take Obama, a forward-thinking man, a liberal, a democrat. Did he not pledge to shut down Guantanamo before his election? But did he do it? No, he did not. And may I ask why not? Did he not want to do it? He wanted to, I am sure he did, but it did not work out. He sincerely wanted to do it, but did not succeed, since it turned out to be very complicated.

Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.

Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.

Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Eat a lot and train hard, I am sure that you will succeed.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.

Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.

[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.

Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.

Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.

Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential.

Entrepreneurs constantly confuse what they do with who they are. We're all certainly responsible for what we do, but failing doesn't make us bad people and succeeding doesn't make us omniscient.

Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.