Succeed Quotes - Page 12

• If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Opportunity, Inheritance, World

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.

  Katy Butler

  Giving, Parent, Ideals

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.

  Lou Holtz

  Country, Army, Invasion

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• The next step is for the great teachers to arise, and for them to clearly understand the challenges ahead and mentor accordingly. Where most generations focus the education of their children on preparing to make a living or succeed financially, leadership generations are taught by parents who see a higher role for their children.

  Oliver DeMille

  Teacher, Children, Focus

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• [The crowd] will finally succeed in remembering only the simplest concepts repeated a thousand times.

  Adolf Hitler

  Crowds, Remember, Thousand

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• If at first you don't succeed, see if there is a prize for the losers.

  Jerry Lawler

  Firsts, Loser, Prize

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• Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton To succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Giving, Inspire, Soul

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• There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

  Stephen Leacock

  Running, Trying, Firsts

  Stephen Leacock (2015). “Frenzied Fiction”, p.145, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Today I will once more be a prophet. If the international Jewish financiers, inside and outside Europe, succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevisation of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Race, Europe

  Speech to the Reichstag, www.yadvashem.org. January 30, 1939.

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• For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.

  David Hume

  Book, Men, Wickedness

  David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume:”, p.239, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In this fight I want to show people who are in poverty, downtrodden or denied that you can succeed. I want my performance to be an inspiration to people. You have to stay in the moment and keep moving ahead. I just want to show everyone that you can find answers to your problems and afflictions with hard work and perseverance.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Perseverance, Moving, Inspiration

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• Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.

  Ted Gup

  Party, Bulls, Secrecy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Many women are simply bad at negotiating (their salaries). Many are happy if they succeed in returning to professional life. The main thing for them is that their job is at least somewhat compatible with their family life. But that's exactly where they are wrong.

  Kristina Schroder

  Jobs, Salary, Family Life

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• If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?

  Cris Mazza

  Mean, Careers, Attention

  "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality.

  Cris Mazza

  Appreciated, Sexuality, Expected

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• What doesn't kill you, usually succeeds in the second attempt.

  Mr. Krabs

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• You can't succeed coming to the potluck with only a fork.

  Dave Liniger

  Forks, Potluck

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• It is not what is happening to you but rather what is happening in you that determines whether you succeed or fail.

  Ervin Seale

  Failing, Determine, Happenings

  ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”

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• When you are starting a business or going down any challenging endeavor, you are bound to encounter challenges. You are going to hit many roadblocks and obstacles. These are obstacles that would make any sane person want to throw in the towel and quit. If you want your business to succeed, you can’t do that (duh).

  Richard Branson

  Challenges, Encounters, Duh

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• A leader's job is not to do the work for others; it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

  Simon Sinek

  Jobs, Helping Others, Leader

  "Simon Sinek: A Good Leader Serves". www.askmen.com.

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• And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

  Robert Sternberg

  Order, Skills, Creative

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• When people 'succeed' they tend to party, when they 'fail' they tend to ponder.

  Tony Robbins

  Party, People, Failing

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Try till you succeed...if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!

  W. C. Fields

  Trying, Facts, Evidence

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• What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Hunger feeds the need to succeed.

  Steve Kaufman

  Trust No One, Inspirational Tattoo, Stronger

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• The ability to change one's mind is probably a key characteristic of the successful investor. Dogmatic and rigid personalities rarely, if ever, succeed in the markets. The markets are a dynamic process, and sustained investment success requires the ability to modify and even change strategies as markets evolve.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Successful, Keys, Investment Success

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