Succeed Quotes - Page 39

• Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Perseverance, Courage, Failure

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• The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript—or painting, song, voice, dance moves, [insert passion here]—in the coffin that is your bedside drawer and close it for good. I guarantee you that it won’t take you anywhere. Or you could do what this writer did: Give in to your obsession instead.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Song, Moving, Passion

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• In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat that attempt until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition, i decided to test the only remedy i have come to have any faith in: awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she is perfectly healthy. She'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is.

  Paulo Coelho

  Suicide, Lying, Heart

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• There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Psychics, Plot

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.169, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

  Jasper Fforde

  Dream, Viruses, World

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• When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn't have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that's great.

  Johnny Depp

  Dream, Doe, Answers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Selfish, Work, Loneliness

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• Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods. Their ways are not meant for the humble likes of us. But we've decoded some of their secrets regardless. Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always - will always be - there.

  Darren Shan

  Fall, Humble, Mean

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• Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

  Jimmy Carter

  Failure, Reality, Challenges

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith”, p.221, Three Rivers Press

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• But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn't do it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Night, Facts, Study

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.61, Penguin

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• Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

  J.A. Konrath

  Fire, People, Trying

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• Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.

  Meg Rosoff

  Heart, Thinking, Laughing

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• He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Boredom, Soul, Enemy

  Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “The Disorderly Knights: The Lymond Chronicles Book Three”, p.43, Penguin UK

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• And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Children, Wonder

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.38, GENERAL PRESS

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• As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.

  Osamu Dazai

  Eye, Wind, Sky

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Decision, Age

  Abraham Lincoln, John Hay (1894). “Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings”

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• So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Giving Up, Feet

  "Stephen Hawking: physics would be 'more interesting' if Higgs boson hadn't been found" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2013.

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• When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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• He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.

  Rick Riordan

  Determination, Home, Fighting

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• This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.

  Jon Krakauer

  Order, Driven, Form

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

  James Joyce

  Lasts, Firsts, Infinity

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.580, GENERAL PRESS

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• Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Competition, Failing

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.227, Macmillan

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• Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

  Steven Morrissey

  Believe, Memorable, Giving

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