Best 873 quotes in «succeed quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

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.

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

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

It is clear that there are reasons for discontent in Iran - economic and political reasons. We have told the Iranian leadership repeatedly that the country's economic recovery can ultimately only succeed through greater international economic cooperation. And the precondition for that is not only that Iran refrain from developing nuclear weapons, but also that Iran's role in the region become far more peaceful. We have offered to finally hold true negotiations and talks on that issue.

It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

It is only if you have the courage to follow your heart that you will succeed on the path of love.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

It’s not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.

It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.

It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.

It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.

It's not just how hard you try, it's how well you will succeed from trying hard.

It's not that I succeed, it's that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.

It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.

It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing.

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

It's simply cheaper to operate the business offshore than it is domestically because of the tax rate, 35%, which is higher than anywhere else in the industrialized world. And one of the things the Trump team says they're gonna do is lower that to 15%. And if they do, folks, you haven't seen anything yet. If they succeed in that - and you watch.

It's the courage to stay with something long enough to succeed at it.

It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.

It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

It's the quiet little hit that is succeeding totally under the radar, ... NCIS.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.