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Trying To Succeed Quotes (page 2)

They made figures of brass, and tried to induce souls to indwell them. In some accounts we read that they succeeded; Friar Bacon was credited with one such Homunculus; so was Albertus Magnus, and, I think, Paracelsus. "He had, at least, a devil in his long sword 'which taught him all the cunning pranks of past and future mountebanks, Aleister Crowley
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. L. M. Montgomery
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting. Pat Summerall
The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. Eugen Herrigel
I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding. Tom Selleck
Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are. Emmy Rossum
George Carlin quote: "If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?"
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? George Carlin
She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy. Oscar Wilde
C. S. Lewis quote: "Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than..."
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. C. S. Lewis
Mother Teresa quote: "God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try."
God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try. Mother Teresa
My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight. George R. R. Martin
She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy. Oscar Wilde
C. S. Lewis quote: "The problem with trying to make yourself stupider than you..."
The problem with trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you so very often succeed. C. S. Lewis
I tried to cheer her up, and apparently succeeded in some degree, before the walk was over; but in the very act my conscience reproved me, knowing, as I did, that, sooner or later, the tie must be broken, and this was only nourishing false hopes and putting off the evil day. Anne Bronte
I too tried to look at matter from a more generous perspective: I didn't succeed. but now I've gained courage; I've reached the depths and discovered that there is light at the bottom. Paulo Coelho

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