Succeed Quotes - Page 31

• Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Perseverance, Mean, Men

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• Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

  Mitt Romney

  Dream, Jobs, Apples

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

  Mitt Romney

  Desire, Different, Path

  Mitt Romney's primary speech in New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Children, Community

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• Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, People, Failing

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• We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Believe, Commitment

  "Paul Ryan State Of The Union Response: Speech Addresses Spending, Health Care & More". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2011.

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• The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Home, Workforce, Impediments

  "Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: ‘I Feel Guilty Working Because Of My Kids’" by Catharine Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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• When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  School, Stem, String Theory

  "Sheryl Sandberg Tells Oprah About Her ‘Date’ With Mark Zuckerberg, Her Marriage And Feeling Like A Fraud". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2013.

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• I don't know what drives me to succeed.

  Adam Sandler

  Knows

  Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. June 21, 2010.

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• If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.

  Howard Schultz

  Passion, Enthusiasm, Obstacles

  "Good C.E.O.'s Are Insecure (and Know It)". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2010.

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• If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

  Howard Schultz

  Growth, Vancouver, May

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• As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

  Charlie Sheen

  Failure, Fall, Kids

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.

  Zadie Smith

  Army, Epic, Rapper

  "The House That Hova Built". www.nytimes.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it's just an everyday lifestyle.

  Hope Solo

  Goal, Everyday, Body

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• Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Selfish, People, Heaven

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed.

  Jordin Sparks

  Nice, Idols, Want

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• Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

  Ben Stein

  Men, Fields, Endeavor

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• I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

  Martha Stewart

  Self, Admire, Reliance

  "Martha Stewart wants you to make it". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.

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• You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

  Rod Stewart

  Desire, Burning, Chests

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• Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Gambling, Odds

  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead act 3 (1967)

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• I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

  Julia Sweeney

  Nice, Thinking, Scary

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• Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Success, Men

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• I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

  Tanya Tucker

  Perseverance, Thinking, Desire

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• If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.

  James D. Watson

  Dream, Play, People

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• If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Failure

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