Succeeding Quotes

The fear of not succeeding becomes replaced with the courage to pursue the things that interest you outside of the career you’re trying to forge.

There are so many businesses that are succeeding on Yelp that don’t pay us a dollar, and we’re really excited about that.

I had a really strange period in my early 20s with the industry, and not succeeding the way I wanted to, and I put a lot of pressure on myself.

I don’t need awards to show me how successful I am or to prove to me that I’m doing a good thing and that I’m succeeding.

I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little.

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

Succeeding in network prime time has gotten tougher. Every day, several thousand homes are wired for cable, and more people are buying videodisks and video cassettes. That all represents competition.

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

From the moment I left Sao Paulo and Brazil, I was fixed on staying here, playing for the first team and succeeding at Real Madrid. That was always my dream. But it was an advantage to be able to join Castilla first.

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.

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

We are succeeding in Iraq. It’s a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

Elvis Presley was rock ‘n’ roll, I thought that was pretty mediocre. But since that time, the succeeding steps in music has been down, just more degradation. Then we got into punk rock, and now we are into rap music, which is a total oxymoron.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

When you’re succeeding, and you’re doing something right… As I’ve got haters, I know I’m doing something right.

My criteria when looking for a role is that I will do anything that stands the chance of succeeding on the level it is intended to. After that, if it’s a part I can do something personal with.

Black women usually don’t get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does it, he may even get to be the president of the United States.

Always make your team around you feel like you are succeeding, even though you know, way down deep, it’s a long shot. You have to be the fighter and the leader and the one who instills energy and hope in others.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world‘s people enhanced – not just in this generation but in succeeding generations – we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

Succeeding, being on TV, being a professional, I was proud of myself, I was happy.

In my judgment, the JCPOA for whatever its limitations, was succeeding on its own terms in blocking Iran‘s pathways to producing fissile material for a nuclear weapon on short order.

When I am talking to someone, I can constantly see whether I am failing or succeeding. I am regulating what I am saying in terms of how I think I’m doing. I’m always searching for the truth of a subject or person, and I look at every meeting as a grand experiment.

The reason for natural selection‘s great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.

If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors.

I couldn’t stand the thought of not succeeding; failure was more than I could deal with.

Once you start succeeding, you start dreaming big. For me, it was that way.

When people hear the phrase ‘risk-taker’, two images come to mind. One is the negative idea of someone who’s reckless and unpredictable, sometimes succeeding and at other times crashing out. The other is a more positive view of a fearless innovator who takes risks when others nervously stand back.

My daughter has no interest in succeeding me in the business. She is going towards social entrepreneurship, an area she is interested in.

If you are planning to start a business, and if you want that business to have a hope of succeeding, be sure you are approaching your venture from a true Entrepreneurial Perspective.

I’m not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists. While during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn’t.

If the people like watching me, see me as an example of someone succeeding, as a young guy who has the will to win, then I’m happy.

I have heard of worse fates than succeeding the longest-serving manager in England.

Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are ‘succeeding.’

People don’t understand this: if you want to have a really good shot at succeeding, there are doors you have to slam in people’s faces and say, ‘This is my priority, and you can’t depend on me to help you.’ I was never good at that.

I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

Growing up, I never saw images of trans people succeeding.

Certainly, I had a wonderful push from my publisher and got very lucky. I’m very aware of what it means to have a publisher back you. But your job as a writer, no matter what else is happening, is to continue to produce work-whether you’re succeeding or failing.

It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

If you’re successful and stressed out, you’re succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

As a musician, you kinda get used to failure in life, and then when things actually start succeeding, it’s a very interesting feeling.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.

I don’t feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn’t turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.

I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptional men who succeed. Until we get the less-exceptional women succeeding equally, we do not have full equality.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

If succeeding generations of Americans don’t understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts – or others like them – will continue.

We’re living in a world where international governance is failing to overcome borders, but technology is succeeding in removing them.

Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don’t apply to awesome people like us.

We are very committed to highlighting women succeeding in entrepreneurship or technology.

If ‘formulaic’ is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding – then isn’t that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren’t likely to succeed and then don’t succeed.

We are not trying to prevent new clean energy businesses from succeeding. Any business that’s economical, that can succeed in the marketplace, any form of energy, we’re all for. As a matter of fact, we’re investing in quite a number of them, ourselves – whether that’s ethanol, renewable fuel oil.

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

I don’t think anyone would look at Colombia today and say that it is failing. This positive outcome is an example of the effective application of smart power – it is succeeding.

I didn’t have the same biases on Trump that others had. I read his books and saw a man who had a strong mindset, a track record of succeeding, and who would make strong and sometimes offensive comments as a way to get media attention.

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

I liked that idea. Someone who’s trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

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

My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it’s also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn’t making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

The worst way to fire somebody is to let it drag out. It’s not good for that person because they’re not succeeding in their role. And it’s not good for the organization because it’s just not working.

Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

Succeeding in business is not just about making money.

The vision, determination, stamina, hope, relentlessness, and sheer work that are involved in staying afloat, much less succeeding, are the same whether you are running a window on 47th Street or Miramax Films or Microsoft.

Succeeding against an army of strawmen might feel good as a speech, but in reality, the world is filled with extraordinarily difficult challenges and very real consequences as a result of how we face them.