It’s hard to keep going when it seems like you’re not getting anywhere, but you’ll never succeed if you stop. Those of us with a dream that seems so far from being realized must remember that the road is long, but only those who stay on the path will reach their destination

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors

You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

I’m going to keep going until I succeed – or die. Don’t think I don’t know how this might end. I’ve known it for years.

I think that humility is key to succeed and conquer your dreams.

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.

If the film succeeds at the box office it is a commercial film. Otherwise it isn’t.

Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can’t see.

You have to be mentally strong to succeed in cricket, especially at the international level.

It’s important to have a strong work ethic to succeed, and even more important to stay hungry for more.

On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

So many out there place an undue burden on themselves to succeed at something, whatever it might be, and then if they fail, grow seeds of resentment and hate toward that failure and, as a result, themselves, and in many cases, project that resentment and hatred onto others.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.

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.

If you want to succeed, you have to be willing to work harder than anyone else.

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.

Whatever your goal is you will never succeed unless you let go of your fears and fly.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.

To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent.

To succeed, you must believe. When you believe, you will succeed.

I am very content with what god has given me. I never feel jealous or insecure. I think everyone should succeed.

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed

It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.

My dear father, only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had

I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light

Curious fact that those who never fail are also those who never truly succeed.

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

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

Both success and failure are largely the results of habit.

If one does not possess persistence, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

Where failure is experienced, it is the individual, not the method, which has failed. If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another, until you succeed.

That’s one of my biggest obstacles. I’m afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

A large room where people sit and read at tables. The word is derived from studium, i.e. a place where one studies

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius

Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes

Your success will be defined by the decisions you make.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value

If you want to succeed, strike out on new paths. Don’t travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.

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

In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can’t do both of them, you’ve got a problem.

We wanna believe that we’re different than the average guy that’s working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations and desires are different than his, that’s why we succeed and he didn’t cos we wanna believe we’re different, but he just didn’t get the break that we had…or he wasted it on something else.