Top 80 Succeeding Quotes

If the people like watching me, see me as an example of someone succeeding, as a young guy who has the will to win, then I’m happy.

You arrive at Formula One being very skeptical, how far can your talent deal with all this, and then you understand those guys are human and pretty reasonable, and finally succeeding in winning your first race, in circumstance as such, it was just an amazing moment.

It’s not about ‘succeeding,’ but sometimes on a film, you know you’ve captured something.

I wanted pretty pictures of older women – women who are trying too hard but succeeding – pulling off an extreme look. What I didn’t know would creep into the portraits was a vulnerability behind the strong facade that most of them wear.

Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don’t apply to awesome people like us.

I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptional men who succeed. Until we get the less-exceptional women succeeding equally, we do not have full equality.

Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life – career, relationships, anything.

Failing doesn’t have to mean not succeeding. It can be, ‘Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.’

From the moment I left Sao Paulo and Brazil, I was fixed on staying here, playing for the first team and succeeding at Real Madrid. That was always my dream. But it was an advantage to be able to join Castilla first.

If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That’s the ‘halo effect.’ Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

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.

Certainly, I had a wonderful push from my publisher and got very lucky. I’m very aware of what it means to have a publisher back you. But your job as a writer, no matter what else is happening, is to continue to produce work-whether you’re succeeding or failing.

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

In my judgment, the JCPOA for whatever its limitations, was succeeding on its own terms in blocking Iran’s pathways to producing fissile material for a nuclear weapon on short order.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

When people hear the phrase ‘risk-taker’, two images come to mind. One is the negative idea of someone who’s reckless and unpredictable, sometimes succeeding and at other times crashing out. The other is a more positive view of a fearless innovator who takes risks when others nervously stand back.

If you look at the heritage of the cable business, if you can own a niche, you have a good chance of succeeding.

Succeeding, being on TV, being a professional, I was proud of myself, I was happy.

We’re living in a world where international governance is failing to overcome borders, but technology is succeeding in removing them.

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.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little.

Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are ‘succeeding.’

Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a little bit envious, but as I have got older, I love to see actors cracking on and succeeding. The same goes for writers.

I don’t feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn’t turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

If you feel like it’s difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.

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.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

I didn’t have the same biases on Trump that others had. I read his books and saw a man who had a strong mindset, a track record of succeeding, and who would make strong and sometimes offensive comments as a way to get media attention.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

Quality broadband service is key to growing our economy, and learning, competing, and succeeding in today’s digital world.

I have all these things I want to do, but I don’t have to do them right away. Because it’s not just about winning, it’s about succeeding, which to me are two different things.

We are not trying to prevent new clean energy businesses from succeeding. Any business that’s economical, that can succeed in the marketplace, any form of energy, we’re all for. As a matter of fact, we’re investing in quite a number of them, ourselves – whether that’s ethanol, renewable fuel oil.

We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.

I don’t think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue to play, and that’s the way I’m succeeding in my life. If I hit you by mistake, all I can say is ‘I’m sorry,’ and I keep moving on.

Black women usually don’t get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does it, he may even get to be the president of the United States.

I have heard of worse fates than succeeding the longest-serving manager in England.

Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.

Growing up, I never saw images of trans people succeeding.

I was always focussed on the modelling and succeeding in that, but now I’m completely focused on making it over in India in the movies.

The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that’s wrong.

By playing in the street, the level of Asian football can absolutely improve, as you will get more technical players. They will be quicker, more creative, and after succeeding in the street, it will be a piece of cake for them to do well eleven a side.

When you’re not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

To reason logically is so to link one’s propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one’s own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other.

People don’t understand this: if you want to have a really good shot at succeeding, there are doors you have to slam in people’s faces and say, ‘This is my priority, and you can’t depend on me to help you.’ I was never good at that.

My daughter has no interest in succeeding me in the business. She is going towards social entrepreneurship, an area she is interested in.

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn’t know.