Succeed Quotes - Page 29

• Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

  Madeleine Albright

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Wmd

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• Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

  Russell Baker

  Years, President, Might

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• It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

  Honore de Balzac

  Father, Men, Bakers

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• Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

  Jose Bergamin

  Littles, Failing

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• Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

  James Bovard

  Fear, Government, People

  "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Motivational, Strong, Determination

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• The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other nations also possess this technology. Many more nations are seeking it, and more will succeed in acquiring it.

  John O. Brennan

  Technology, Firsts, United States

  "The Efficacy and Ethics of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy". Remarks by John O. Brennan at the Wilson Center, www.wilsoncenter.org. April 30, 2012.

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• It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

  Jeff Bridges

  Funny, Real, Laughing

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• Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.

  Eli Broad

  Teacher, Workplace, Responsible

  "Management Experience Is Paramount" by Eli Broad, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

  Robert Browning

  Success, Men, Deeds Done

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.89, Wildside Press LLC

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• Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

  Robert Browning

  Failure, Lows, Aim

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.538, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.

  Nicolas Cage

  Teacher, People, Care

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• One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

  Herman Cain

  Motivation, Organization, People

  "A Pizza Party with Herman Cain". Interview with Devin Gordon, Alan Richman, Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 13, 2011.

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• I honestly believe that there's an element in this country in our politics that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican Party and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

  Herman Cain

  Country, Party, Believe

  "Cain: I don't remember Bialek" by Reid J. Epstein, www.politico.com. November 8, 2011.

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• I love 'Wild 'N Out' so much - one, because it's my baby, but also I get to see others succeed and go on to lead their own careers.

  Nick Cannon

  Baby, Careers, Goes On

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• Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

  Paul Cezanne

  Earth, Course Of Life, Courses

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• From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

  Dick Cheney

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

  Kate Chopin

  Artist, Effort, Soul

  Kate Chopin (2014). “The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, America

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• To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Pride, Winning

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.146

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• Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

  Christopher Columbus

  Soul, Wish, Gold

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• Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
  And black despair succeeds brown study.

  William Congreve

  Black, Brain, Despair

  "An Impossible Thing". Poem by William Congreve, 1720.

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• Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

  Robert Herrick

  Time, Doe, Former

  Robert Herrick (1844). “Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine”, p.91

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• The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Ambition, Attention, Center Of Attention

  "2006: Philip Seymour Hoffman on 60 Minutes". "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. February 2, 2014.

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

  Jenny Holzer

  Laundry, Clean, Loathe

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