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Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

Succeeding in business is all about making connections

Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.

Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.

Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.

That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

The best advice I was given if that if you want to succeed and you want to achieve, you have to learn how to handle failures.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.

The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information.

The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

The development and/or revelation of a CEO's potential for great leadership requires slow escalations of experiences that involve pressure, each time given the tools to succeed. Successful experience breeds confidence, as well as an eventual restlessness to try more.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.

the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

The many fail: the one succeeds.

The metaphor I routinely use is polar bears in the Sahara desert. You take creatures adapted to the cold and put them in the heat, the very traits that allow them to survive in one environment will conspire against them in the other. We are polar bears in the Sahara with one important distinction: we are smarter than the average bear. Once we identify the nature of the problem, we can think our way out of it. But it begins by acknowledging you didn't fail because you couldn't succeed. Because you didn't even know what the scope of the problem was. It's not your fault.

The more women succeed and rise up into positions of power, the more remote they become from actual masculine energy.

The Noisiest buzz in the industry lately has been over the emerging use of cable TV systems to provide fast network data transmissions using a device called a cable modem. But the likelihood of this technology succeeding is zilch.

The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: ‘The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.’

There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.

There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

Sometimes you succeed.... and other times you learn.

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.

Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed.

Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.

Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.

Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.

Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work.

That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.

That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.