Get Ahead Quotes - Page 2

• Do people get moral when they don't get ahead?

  Ruth Gordon

  People, Moral, Righteousness

  Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books

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• The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.

  William Feather

  Years, Progress, Next Year

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.

  Chris Hedges

  Mean, School, Careers

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• While you're trying to get ahead, remember to get aheart as well. When your only problem IS a nail, all you want is a decent hammer. There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle.

  Albert Einstein

  Two, Miracle, Live Your Life

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• The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passion, Sometimes, Born

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• Multiethnic character of America is very attractive to people. They also see a place where you get ahead, not because of where you came from, but because of where you want to go.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Character, America, People

  Source: www.cnbc.com

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• There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.

  W. C. Fields

  Real, Two, Today

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• Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

  Gene Simmons

  Needs, Music Is, Wells

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• The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Men, Law

  "Address at the Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue of Bishop Francis Asbury, Washington, DC". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 15, 1924.

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• We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Errors, People

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• Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I was born to run .

  Emmylou Harris

  Running, Being The Best, Born To Run

  Song: BORN TO RUN Words and Music by Paul Kennerley, Album: The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches and Highways

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• People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Long, People

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2008). “The Night My Sister Went Missing”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If a young man is going to get ahead, if he is going to reach the top, he must be all wrapped up in what he is doing. He has to give his job - whatever it is - not only his talent but every bit of his enthusiasm and devotion.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Jobs, Men, Giving

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• You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

  Dick Armey

  Success, Wisdom, Revenge

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• What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.

  Wendell Willkie

  Powerful, Men, Enemy

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• Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

  Paul Schrader

  Settling, Viewers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Confidence, Courage

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Freedom and equality, addresses”

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• Women are so often segregated to their sexuality, and how they appear. In fact, there's a lot of talk, even now, I think in most jobs this is true... people will say, when a woman rises to power, they ask, 'who did she sleep with?' You know, it couldn't possibly be about her acumen, it couldn't possibly be about her intelligence. It's got to be about her body, because that's how women get ahead.

  Jennifer Beals

  Jobs, Sleep, Thinking

  Chatelaine Interview, www.chatelaine.com. March 13, 2013.

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• No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind.

  Melanne Verveer

  Country, People, Half

  "Despite Arab Spring, women's rights tenuous, Senate panel told" by Jamie Crawford, www.cnn.com. November 3, 2011.

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• Good conversation can leave you more exhilarated than alcohol; more refreshed than the theater or a concert. It can bring you entertainment and pleasure; it can help you get ahead, solve problems, spark the imagination of others. It can increase your knowledge and education. It can erase misunderstandings, and bring you closer to those you love.

  Dorothy Sarnoff

  Imagination, Alcohol, Sparks

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• If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, World, Want

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.160, Vintage

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• I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing.

  David Cunliffe

  Thinking, Want, Chance

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• I'm a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I'm a sitting duck because I can't get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They're far ahead of me. That's what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It's a big, silent monster out there. That's what it feels like.

  Viola Davis

  Mean, Ducks, Wish

  Source: collider.com

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• The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Doctors, Medicine

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• The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition

  Bruce Lee

  Ambition, Men, Self

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.129, Tuttle Publishing

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