Succeed Quotes - Page 27

• If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain.

  Matt Groening

  Pain, Giving, Firsts

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• A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving Up, Refuse, Persons

  Joyce Meyer (2006). “The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.

  Laozi

  Earth, Shapes

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• Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to 'progress.'

  Stewart Udall

  Running, Moving, Sacrifice

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• Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Children, Book

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• People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

  Sergey Brin

  People, Trying, Sophisticated

  "Google Guys". Playboy Interview, kottke.org.

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• The Fed is pushing a variety of workarounds that would inject trillions in new money into the economy while bypassing the banking system altogether. Time will tell whether or not this will succeed. Meanwhile, a serious danger lurks around the corner. Once the recession is over, the lending will start again. With fractional-reserve banking and limitless supplies of cash on hand, we will likely see the overall price trends reversed, from deflation to inflation to possible hyperinflation.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Hands, Banking, Cash

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• When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.

  Diego Maradona

  Hard Work, People, Luck

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• Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

  Noam Chomsky

  Doe, Cost, Territory

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance”, p.241, Macmillan

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• If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to life a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.

  Norman Doidge

  Growth, Littles, Firsts

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• Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.

  Nate Silver

  Odds, Data, Needs

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.17, Penguin

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• People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

  Henry Ford

  Men, People, World

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.149, 谷月社

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• Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices. This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the lack of cultural bias means that these practices can be - and are - just as successfully employed elsewhere.

  Masaaki Imai

  Mean, Practice, Good Man

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• Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.

  Ken Blanchard

  Limits

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2015

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• Much of the appeal of feminism is that it encourages women to do what they always felt like doing anyway: take everything personally. But to succeed at the highest level, you need some objectivity, which feminism hates. Feminists see objective reality as a conspiracy out to make them feel bad about themselves.

  Steve Sailer

  Hate, Reality, Objectivity

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• There are now businesses and entire industries that exist solely as a result of federal patronage. Profiting from government instead of earning profits in the economy, such businesses can continue to succeed even if they are squandering resources and making products that people wouldn't ordinarily buy.

  Charles Koch

  Government, People, Earning

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• What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.

  Mark Steyn

  America, Long Ago, Presidential

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• An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

  Margaret Mead

  Art

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• When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."

  Frank Langella

  Acting, Answers, Hated

  "Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them". Book by Frank Langella, 2012.

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• A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

  William Arthur Ward

  Decided

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• See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Heart, World

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: with a life of the author, and a critical examination of his writings”, p.531

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• Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.

  Sigmund Freud

  Depressing, Real, Play

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.

  Ramakrishna

  Spiritual, Men, Needs

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain.

  Adolf Hitler

  Land, Britain, Shore

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• If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

  Napoleon Hill

  Jobs, Chance, Excellent

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