I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
~By Michael Jordan ~
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.
~By Rene Cassin ~
America demands invention and innovation to succeed.
~By Kit Bond ~
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
~By Chester W. Nimitz ~
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
~By Mark Twain ~
Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
~By Seth Godin ~
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
~By Dale Turner ~
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 ~
Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.
~By Madeleine Albright ~
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.
~By Eugen Herrigel ~
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 ~
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
~By Orville Wright ~
Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed.
~By Wim Wenders ~
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
~By James Madison ~
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
~By Julie Andrews ~
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
~By Robert Benchley ~
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
~By Bernard Berenson ~
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
~By Donna Tartt ~
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
~By Ferdinand Piech ~
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 ~
Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
~By Bob Black ~
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
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 ~
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists. While during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't.
~By Alberto Fujimori ~
There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
~By Bianca Jagger ~
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
~By Henry Brooks Adams ~
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
~By William Westmoreland ~
People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed.
~By Frank Luntz ~
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
~By Betty Friedan ~
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
~By Francis Bacon ~
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
~By Alan Greenspan ~
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
~By John Mortimer ~
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 ~
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.
~By Kim Dae Jung ~
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
~By Michael Jordan ~
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 ~
Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.
~By Robert Shea ~
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
~By W. C. Fields ~
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
~By Og Mandino ~
You always succeed in producing a result.
~By Tony Robbins ~
To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.
~By John H. Johnson ~
It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
~By Gore Vidal ~
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
~By Brian Tracy ~
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
~By Garson Kanin ~
The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.
~By Clarence Budington Kelland ~
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.
~By Iyad Allawi ~
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 ~
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 ~
I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.
~By George Grey ~
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
~By Gore Vidal ~
When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
~By Fareed Zakaria ~
I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.
~By Rick Schroder ~
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
~By Tanya Tucker ~
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
~By Earl Warren ~
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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 ~
When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.
~By Julius Streicher ~
Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.
~By Eriq La Salle ~
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
~By Albert Ellis ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.
~By Thomas F. Meagher ~
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.
~By Dean Cain ~
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
~By Harry F. Banks ~
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 ~
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
~By Bill Cosby ~
They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.
~By William John Wills ~
Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.
~By Curtis Carlson ~
On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
Nothing succeeds like reports of success.
~By Sue Sanders ~
It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
~By David Merrick ~
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.
~By Lynn Davies ~
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.
~By Maude Adams ~
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