Succeed Quotes - Page 33

• All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Time, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 29, 2015

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• So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

  Dr. Seuss

  Positive, Inspiring, Encouragement

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beautiful, People, May

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

  Gore Vidal

  Love, Dream, Littles

  "Gore Vidal quotes: 26 of the best", www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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• Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Victory, Ends, Mines

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• God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew it, there are heavenly hosts pulling for us -- friends in heaven that we can't rememer now, who yearn for our victory.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heaven, Victory, Want

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• People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

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• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, War, Party

  Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (222), 1956.

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• For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned underground. Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.

  Ralph Ellison

  Country, Attitude, Hard Work

  Ralph Ellison (1980). “Invisible man”, Vintage

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• I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Challenges, Spite, I Have Learned

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jul 29, 2011

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• Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that is when we are truly tested. When all that we have within is exposed, and we may no longer blame our inadequacies for our failure, but must instead depend upon our strengths to succeed ... that is when the measure of a man is taken, my boy.

  James A. Owen

  Taken, Men, Boys

  James A. Owen (2010). “Here, There Be Dragons”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Prove, Concerned

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• Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Believe, Hard Work, People

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• Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.

  Tom Robbins

  Land, People, Waiting

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• I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Writing, Laughing

  Giacomo Casanova (2000). “The Story of My Life”, Marsilio Pub

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• It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the full knowledge that we loved. I think that we must have loved each other all our lives, and that each succeeding spring was a word in the revelation of that love, not to be understood until, in the fullness of time, the whole sentence was written out in that most beautiful of all beautiful springs.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beautiful, Spring, Thinking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.2489, e-artnow

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• I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, People, Laughing

  Jane Austen, Penelope Hughes-Hallett (1991). “My dear Cassandra: the letters of Jane Austen”, Clarkson N Potter Publishers

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• If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Rudeness, Members

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Mother, Struggle

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1941). “Goethe's Faust”

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• And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

  C. S. Lewis

  Loneliness, Envy, Hatred

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• I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Determination, Struggle, Past

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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• We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Voice, Weakness

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Selfish, Reflection

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

  Hillary Clinton

  Success, Life Is Too Short, Might

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• It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which is exquisitely beautiful, graceful, and fascinating--I experience at the same time a calm, unwarped consciousness, that she would not make me a good wife; that she is not the partner suited to me; that I should discover this within a year after marriage; and that to twelve months' rapture would succeed a lifetime of regret. This I know.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Beautiful, Regret, Passion

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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