There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
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There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.
Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?
You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.
Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.
I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.
Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.
When the promise is clear, the price gets easy
It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.
The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.
Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.
If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.
It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort of inspiration that you see from so many hundreds of people who tackle tasks that are impossible and never give up and succeed.
Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you cannot succeed without believing in yourself, and that belief is completely under your control.
Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.
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