Succeed Quotes - Page 27

If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.

Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it.

He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.

People respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another.

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

If at first you don't succeed, see if there is a prize for the losers.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.

Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.

Michel Houllebecq is surely the novelist who best describes contemporary phobias and fears. He also succeeds perhaps like no other in portraying the postmodern character of our society. He addresses the possibilities of genetics at times, or Islamism, and infuses all of it with a certain amount of absurdity. I get a very strong sense of that in "Submission." The way he toys with the absurd makes him an author sui generis, one who stands out from the others.

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.

Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.

If we succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone sacrificed for us.

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.

I suppose in order to succeed at something you have to be very persistent. I've never done that.

Failure either breaks people or it makes them succeed.

People succeed at just about anything they're genuinely enthusiastic about.

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed.

That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.