Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.
~By Tim Johnson ~
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
~By Julie Andrews ~
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.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
~By Robert Herrick ~
We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.
~By Neil Sheehan ~
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
~By Thomas J. Watson ~
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.
~By Haldan Keffer Hartline ~
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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.
~By Pat Summerall ~
It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.
~By Paul von Hindenburg ~
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.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.
~By Frank Rich ~
When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.
~By David Selby ~
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
They're definitely having their moment now because they know how to work the system, and I know I have to be that way, too, in order to succeed. But it's never been more frustrating for me.
~By Rose McGowan ~
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
~By Gore Vidal ~
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
~By Paul Cezanne ~
I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.
~By Michael York ~
There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.
~By Terri Windling ~
A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
~By Ben Stein ~
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.
~By Lucy Maud Montgomery ~
It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.
~By Jerry Gillies ~
Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.
~By Bram Cohen ~
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
~By Donna Tartt ~
I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
~By Ed Rendell ~
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
~By An Wang ~
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
~By Lao Tzu ~
I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation.
~By Amar Bose ~
We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.
~By Iyad Allawi ~
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
~By Edward de Bono ~
What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.
~By Clara Hughes ~
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.
~By Harry Reid ~
I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.
~By Phil Hartman ~
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
~By Edmund Burke ~
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products.
~By Ron Johnson ~
We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.
~By Paul Ryan ~
Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
~By Dean Kamen ~
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
~By Maria Montessori ~
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
~By David Viscott ~
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
~By Gore Vidal ~
No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.
~By James Cash Penney ~
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
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.
~By Michael Patrick Jann ~
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
~By Lord Acton ~
A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.
~By Kenneth Grahame ~
The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.
~By Clarence Budington Kelland ~
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
~By Francis Bacon ~
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.
~By Wilfred Burchett ~
Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.
~By Lionel K. Murphy ~
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
~By Ernest Renan ~
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.
~By Isabella Rossellini ~
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?
~By Charlie Sheen ~
You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.
~By John McCain ~
During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
~By Ferdinand Piech ~
I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.
~By Boris Trajkovski ~
It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.
~By John Astin ~
I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.
~By Nichelle Nichols ~
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
~By Mark Twain ~
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
~By Sophocles ~
I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.
~By Tim O'Reilly ~
QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.
~By Scott Cook ~
To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.
~By John H. Johnson ~
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
~By Nelson Boswell ~
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
~By Ali ibn Abi Talib ~
America demands invention and innovation to succeed.
~By Kit Bond ~
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
~By Johannes Sebastian Bach ~
But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
~By Robert Shea ~
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
~By Vernon Howard ~
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.
~By Steve Ballmer ~
If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
~By Millicent Fawcett ~
It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.
~By John McEnroe ~
I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.
~By Henry Kravis ~
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
~By Og Mandino ~
Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.
~By Tom Skerritt ~
Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.
~By Curt Flood ~
It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
~By James Bovard ~
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
~By Joseph Roux ~
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
~By Henri Poincare ~
The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.
~By Eric Cantor ~
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
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