Quotes on Succeed

No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.

The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it... What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our way before it can escape... We try to cling to pleasure, but all we succeed in doing is making ourselves frustrated because, whatever it promises, pleasure simply cannot last. But if I am willing to kiss the joy as it flies, I say, "Yes, this moment is beautiful. I won't grab it. I'll let it go."

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

Succeeding in business is all about making connections

To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want.

It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success.

My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.

Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction. The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.