Best 873 quotes in «succeed quotes» category

I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.

I just have a sense that Obama's not going to ultimately succeed in totally transforming America into something other than how it was founded.

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

I like to be against the odds.

I loved my career at Goldman Sachs. I believed in business principle number 1: if the client succeeds, our own success will follow. This principle formed the basis for my career and my leadership style.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

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

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 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 America, everything you need to succeed is within reach.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

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

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 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.

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 war, only the simple succeeds.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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?