Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead.

I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometimes, despite everything, you still fail.

We must all remember life doesn't have to be fair for us to succeed if we take change and become masters and creators of our own destiny.

I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.

Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I lost three times before I got elected. There's no limit. Stay in pursuit of your dreams.

My game is such that I either succeed or fail. But I always hope to do something which is useful to the team at the start of the innings.

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

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

With success comes a lot of failure, and it doesn't matter how many times you fall it just depends on how you get up and keep succeeding.

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product, you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.

Something that's fun for me is a challenge. When you have a challenge and you take on that challenge and succeed, that's the best feeling.

Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.

I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

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.

With Barack, there's an emotional need to succeed, to win, to obtain victory. He always believes that he's the smartest person in the room.

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?

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.

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.

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.

Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

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.

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

In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.

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

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.

Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

Debtors will seek to cancel their debts. Creditors will try to collect, and the more they succeed, the more they will impoverish the economy.

You don't get to be the bad mom and still succeed at your job and be tough. It's such a good job because it's so rare. It's a really rare job.

I just have a sense that Obama's not going to ultimately succeed in totally transforming America into something other than how it was founded.

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