Best 873 quotes in «succeed quotes» category

I'm fearful when I push myself. It's a tough thing to do, but you need to acknowledge that you have what it takes to succeed.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

In 2016, you shouldn't have to choose between succeeding at work and being there for your family.

In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

In America, everything you need to succeed is within reach.

Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all.

I never doubted, not ever, that I would succeed.

In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

In order to succeed, you can't be afraid to fail. Just do it and don't let anybody tell you you can't.

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.

In war, only the simple succeeds.

In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus ... The reconciliation of the methods which you are planning to make, serves to clarify them mutually, and what they have in common contains very often their true metaphysics; this is why that metaphysics is almost the last thing that one discovers. The spirit arrives at the results as if by instinct; it is only on reflecting upon the route that it and others have followed that it succeeds in generalising the methods and in discovering its metaphysics.

Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.

I still make paintings and use the figure; it's hard to do and hard to succeed. On some levels, because I am working with black figures and black pigment, it's even harder because I have to be more responsible for the image. I try to be really careful about the presence the figure projects.

I suppose in order to succeed at something you have to be very persistent. I've never done that.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.

It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.

It helps to have someone in the same boat as you... There's a lot of pressure, so it helps to have someone who's also young and famous and has a lot of pressure to succeed.

I think that’s the only way you can ever be truly successful in this world. You have to acknowledge that it is from above. And you have to have the confidence that even if you lose it all, things will be okay. You have to be willing to fail, and all the while work your tail off to succeed.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed.