Succeeding Quotes

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Thomas Jefferson

May, Country, Another

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.
Lao Tzu

Good, Beautiful, Together

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

Age, Rather, Write

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.
Norman Vincent Peale

Yourself, Mind, Picture

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
Mitt Romney

Dreams, Work, Business

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

Lost, Trying, Between

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
Ovid

Love, Vanquished

When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
Larry David

Work, Freedom, Concerned

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
Andrea Jung

Change, Time, Difficult

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.
John Cleese

Small, America, Try

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.
Russell Baker

Change, Said, Few

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.
James Buchan

Work, Great, Another

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.
Walter Isaacson

Money, End, Journalism

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti

Beauty, Art, Effort

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.
Theresa May

Free, Risk, Willing

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
Henri Poincare

Nature, Same, Moment

In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
Zac Efron

Work, Business, Mind

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

War, Winning, Specifics

If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
Henri Poincare

Same, Situation, Laws

The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
Orville Wright

Work, Ability, Machine

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
Jose Bergamin

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
James Bovard

Government, Fear, Reason

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.
Michael Morpurgo

Education, Great, Focus

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.
Joe Baca

Children, Give, Goal

Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.
Eric Ries

Smart, Help, Public

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
Michael Eisner

Life, Good, Experience

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

Women, Home, Workforce

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

Hope, Mistakes, Past

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.
Terri Windling

Hope, Hard, Through

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