Succeeding Quotes (page 2)

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• climbing
• meaning
• means

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. Alain Robert

• team
• thinking
• succeeded

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

• time
• knows
• being afraid

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. LeBron James

• single
• sales
• personality

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. Mary Kay Ash

• struggle
• tough
• setback

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding. Iyad Allawi

• willful
• american
• americanized

The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq. Mohammed Aldouri

• fail to succeed
• failed
• done

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

• good
• men
• evil

All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke

• may
• army
• great

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding. Roger Zelazny

• time
• celebration
• little

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed. Mia Hamm

• manly
• him
• suits

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. P. T. Barnum

• experience
• attainable
• experimenting

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. Arthur C. Clarke

• party
• energy
• common

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. H. L. Mencken

• difficult
• school life
• school

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions. David Mamet

• some good
• short
• competition

I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, congratulated me on my talent, and then showed me how Joyce or Hemingway handled the same elements of the short story. The prof would have placed me in competition with the greatest writers of all time, and that would have ended my writing career. Kurt Vonnegut