Succeed

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I don't know what drives me to succeed.

If you have the right horses and the right team, that's the way to succeed. But you have to work, and you have to improve. Every year, you must get better.

I don't think the way to succeed is by doing something aggressive. Aggression is weak-minded.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded, you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

If you don't succeed on your own ground, then there's no reason to succeed. Unless, of course, you really want a boat. If you're a person who feels that with a yacht, everything will be all right, then you should do whatever you have to and get the yacht.

Rock and roll's relatively new, in the sense of the Fifties, Sixties, right? They invented the first sort of rock stars, and they took it to excess, and then the excess became bitter, tormented. Then it became okay to succeed.

Prince Philippe is well prepared to succeed me.

If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.

I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation.

Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams.

When you do life a certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that's what we preach.

The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn't your gender - it's you.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.

I wouldn't go so far to say that destiny preserves me. I managed to survive and to succeed.

Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed.

I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.

As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you're guaranteed to fail.

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.

Yes, we can do business in Nepal and still succeed. That is what I proved.

I'm still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that's why I made 'Star 80.' To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet.

There is no longer time for statements like 'if only' or 'we can't.' We must and we will succeed. The only question now is how and when. I believe the time is now.

The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.

We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Where the 'Bay of Pigs' invasion failed, undoubtedly the tourist invasion will succeed in forever changing the landscape of island. What comes next in Cuba? The answer is that many Cubans aren't waiting around to find out.

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it, for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success, we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

I don't think it's not feminist to use every tool you have to succeed, and part of that is being a woman - presenting yourself in a certain way.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

To not run a venture into the ground, entrepreneurs need to learn what it takes to succeed.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

You succeed and accomplish and accomplish, the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

There's a flipside to this, if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market their stories in compelling ways, will succeed.

On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.

For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.

As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed.

'They' are the people that don't believe in you, that say that you won't succeed. We stay away from 'They.'

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

It's fundamental to succeed in coming into contact with your subject. Whether it's a big Hollywood star or a passer-by in the street, it makes no difference.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

You have to be nice to everybody, and then people want you to succeed.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you'd succeed. Then I lived the 'Social Network' movie, but only the first half. The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

I was going to show my kids that no matter what happened with their parents, parole officers and other teachers, I wouldn't give up on them. I let them know it matters to me that you come to class, it matters to me that you try, it matters to me when you succeed.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient, it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit, you will never succeed, regardless of your talent and ability.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

Few things are impracticable in themselves, and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

There must be pressure on Moscow so that we have negotiations. Moscow will not succeed by unilaterally backing Bashar al-Assad.

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it, merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

That doesn't mean you have to have the lowest costs in the industry to succeed. But you need to make sure the activities and product attributes that increase your costs above the other guy bring in at least that much more in revenue, and hopefully more.

Let's make the SAT and PSAT free so everyone has a chance to succeed.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

I want to see America thrive. I want to see all different families here succeed.

If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.

Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.

This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

If you don't feel hunger, you don't succeed at anything.

If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

I know I can succeed at Manchester United, and I want to show everyone that I deserve to be a key player in this team and this league.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poems, I prepared to enter a remote West Point. I would succeed there, it was hoped, as he had.

If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

In any story, drama may be intensified by the characters realizing by how narrow a margin they had managed to succeed - that is, where coincidence played a role. This is one of the more realistic ways to use coincidence because rarely do we realize how important a coincidental event is until after the fact.

Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.

No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed, they just fail to act on that knowledge.

I am very driven by fame and success, I like to succeed at everything I do.

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.

We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.

I'm part of a party that I think values making sure that everyone in this country has an opportunity to succeed. That's why I'm a Democrat.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.

I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.

We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.

I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?

If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you're consistent, you will succeed.

Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.

The president can't succeed without Congress, and Congress can't succeed without the president. The image of one depends on the image of another. It is not a zero-sum game.

Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.

There's not too many teams that can succeed on and off the field together.

People selling content internationally need to be highly focused on selling the right product to the right buyer. If things don't succeed on a particular network, they're not going to stay on very long.

By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

There's a touch of the gambler in anybody really competitive and somebody that's willing to concede that to succeed, sometimes you need to cut corners and to make bold choices.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

You have to succeed as a young actor, then as a dad actor, those would be my 'Harvey Moon' years, then as an old actor.

I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages, I get rejected so many times.

I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.