Trying To Succeed Quotes (page 3)

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• dark
• heart
• wounding

They tried to pierce your heart with a Morgul-knife which remains in the wound. If they had succeeded, you would have become like they are, only weaker and under their command. You would have became a wraith under the dominion of the Dark Lord. J. R. R. Tolkien

• tris
• performers
• performances

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding. Maggie Gyllenhaal

• else
• succeed
• never

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there. Colin Greenwood

• people
• career
• quitting

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded. Ferdinand Piech

• people
• door
• career

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet. Ferdinand Piech

• government
• engagement
• business

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. Stephen Harper

• best
• feeling
• feelings

I feel less adrenaline in my body now, but more in my head. I tried to be at my best, and I succeeded. Andriy Shevchenko

• to live
• forever
• willing to try

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed. George Bernard Shaw

• thoughts
• alone
• inspirational

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. Pearl S. Buck

• great
• greatness
• wellness

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. Robert Benchley

• good
• personality
• personal

If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed. Michael Patrick Jann

• hides
• if at first

If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. Harry Banks

• character
• self
• difficult

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times. Michael Caine

• failure
• moments
• saying

Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going tobring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at... C. S. Lewis

• success
• failure
• kids

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? Charlie Sheen