Quotes About Succeeding

I cannot imagine why we should be at expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

And they act in the face of risk, because their fear of not succeeding exceeds their fear of failing.

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.

I was actually going to school to be a chiropractor but was also succeeding at bodybuilding - I did well in a few national contests.

If you look at the heritage of the cable business, if you can own a niche, you have a good chance of succeeding.

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.

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

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.

Quality broadband service is key to growing our economy, and learning, competing, and succeeding in today's digital world.

Nothing makes sense anymore, because all the meaning and purpose that life had for them was associated with accumulating, succeeding, building, protecting, and sense gratification. It was associated with the outward movement and identification with form, that is to say, ego. Most people cannot conceive of any meaning when their life, their world, is being demolished. And yet, potentially, there is even deeper meaning here than in the outward movement.

You have been given a second chance to start your life over. You can't throw this opportunity away. If you do you will be a colossal fool. If you get the chance to do something and don't do it then you'll simply live with regret. That's a worse situation than trying something daring and maybe not succeeding. At least you tried. Isn't that what you want to show your kids?

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look. What I didn't know would creep into the portraits was a vulnerability behind the strong facade that most of them wear.

Yet although the odds were against me, it wasn't as if I had no chance of succeeding.

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

Many of the wicked are receiving their wages now. Many Christians who may not be succeeding according to the world's standards now, will reap great rewards in heaven.

As for his look, it was a natural cheerfulness striving against depression without, and not quite succeeding. The look suggested issolation, but it revealed something more. As Usual with bright natures, the deity that lies ignominiously chained within a ephemeral human carcase shone out of him like a ray.

Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.

The succeeding stage, very plainly announced in hysterical sermons, was to be the moment when apocalyptic nihilists coincided with Armageddon weaponry.

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.

A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations.

I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody.

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.