Succeed Quotes - Page 17

• If you put the work in, and you show that you're willing to work hard, you'll succeed.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Hard Work, Shows, Willing

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• If you truly want to succeed, be prepared to go the extra mile.

  Napoleon Hill

  Want, Miles, Be Prepared

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• Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophy, Doctors, Heaven

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.33, Modern Library

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• Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.

  Ramakrishna

  Spiritual, Men, Needs

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain.

  Adolf Hitler

  Land, Britain, Shore

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• To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Choices, Know How

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• If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

  Napoleon Hill

  Jobs, Chance, Excellent

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• Nobody with a victim mentality will get anywhere. Ever. They will never succeed.

  Jon Lovitz

  Victim Mentality, Victim, Mentality

  "Lovitz: Obama Selling A 'Victim Mentality'", www.realclearpolitics.com. May 18, 2012.

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• You become what you think about most. When you continually focus on the fear of failure, failure will become real for you. Look instead at the possibilities. Look at what could happen if only you would attempt it. Sure, it might not succeed completely. Yet even then you will learn something.

  Ralph Marston

  Real, Thinking, Focus

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• I discovered early on that the player who learned the fundamentals of basketball is going to have a much better chance of succeeding and rising through the levels of competition than the player who was content to do things his own way. A player should be interested in learning why things are done a certain way. The reasons behind the teaching often go a long way to helping develop the skill.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Teaching, Player

  John R. Wooden, Bill Sharman, Bob Seizer (1975). “The Wooden-Sharman method: a guide to winning basketball”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.

  John Wooden

  Believe, Ambition, Goal

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2009). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success”, p.99, Revell

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• You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

  Stefan Heym

  Elements, Socialism, Democratic

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• Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

  Dave Hickey

  Ears, Purses, Problem

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• If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed.

  Mencius

  Running, Thinking, Mind

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• Most people who succeed in life have no clue that what they are trying to achieve is impossible.

  John Avery

  People, Trying, Impossible

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• President [Barack] Obama's staking his reelection hopes on rebuilding America's middle class. He wants higher taxes on the wealthy, tougher rules on Wall Street, and everyone else to get a fair shot to succeed. Republicans can cry "class warfare" if they want, but as the president put it today, it's about this country's welfare.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, Wall, Class

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Believe, Play

  "Obama Attempts To Invoke Roosevelt's Famous Speech". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. December 6, 2011.

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• To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mirrors, Inability, Looks

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1728, Random House

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• The difference between those who succeed and fail: not taking advantage of opportunities.

  Eric Thomas

  Opportunity, Differences, Failing

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• Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

  Bruce Lee

  Needs, Tools, Pessimism

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, p. 121, 2000.

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• The value of work, and of always learning something new, and what it takes to achieve excellence. I really believe in those things that you have to dedicate yourself and spend time, that excellence is elusive. It's a little maddening, to try to have that level of discipline in your life, and I don't succeed all the time. But I do try.

  Ben Affleck

  Believe, Learning Something New, Discipline

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• Business cannot succeed in a world that is failing.

  Don Tapscott

  World, Failing, Stakeholder

  Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams (2010). “Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet”, p.6, Penguin

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• It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Victory, Trying, May

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• He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger... Men of superior mind busy themselves first getting at the root of things; when they succeed, the right course is open to them.

  Confucius

  Men, Thinking, Roots

  Confucius, “Men Of Superior Mind”

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• Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Average, Giving

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