Trying To Succeed Quotes - Page 2

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

  William Feather

  Success, Perseverance, Hard Work

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• How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)

  Shepherd Mead

  Book, Trying, Titles

  Title of book (1952)

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• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Success, Teamwork

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.372, Penguin

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  In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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• If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

  William Edward Hickson

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  "Try and Try Again". Poem by William Edward Hickson,

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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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• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Success, Sarcastic

  "Writer, colorful gay figure Quentin Crisp dead at 90". www.cnn.com. November 21, 1999.

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• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.

  Norman Geras

  Trying, Succeed, Doe

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• He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures as a part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of 'nothing attempted, nothing gained' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Motivational, Wise, Philosophy

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• The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

  Bill Vaughan

  Wise, Philosophy, Failure

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• The way you succeed at all this stuff is by stopping trying to succeed and just working very hard without thinking about it, just trusting, completely. It's that faith that creates the bridge on which you walk across to eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

  Michael Jordan

  Success, Basketball, Baseball

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• I'm not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I'm doing it for myself. I'm one for the 'You only live once so you should do as much as you can' sort of thing.

  Zara Phillips

  People, Waiting, Trying

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