Best 873 quotes in «succeed quotes» category

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.

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.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

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

[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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.

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.

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

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.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Every time somebody on the internet sort of glances at us sideways, we launch an attack at them. That's not going to work out for us long term, and the U.S. have to get ahead of the problem if we're going to succeed.

Fail early, fail often, in order to succeed sooner.

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

Executive Intelligence is about the specific skills one must have in order to succeed in senior leadership positions, i.e. the ability to evaluate underlying assumptions, recognize the likely emotional reactions of individuals, or sense a misstep and make appropriate adjustments.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Failure will not stop you if you are determined to succeed.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles.

For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and to feed their people while protecting wildlife and Africa's iconic species.

For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.

Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.

For me, sensibility is the location of talent. Sensibility comes first because only with the right kind of sensibility is talent useful. I've met many people who are extraordinarily talented but have no capacity to go outside of themselves or their field. I love those people, but they would not succeed in our culture.

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

Girls Scouts taught me to succeed (cookie selling) and to fail (knot tying) and to learn and benefit from both.

God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish his love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith does not earn it any more than our stupidity jeopardizes it. God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.

Good morning! Remember: A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.

Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.