#succeed

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself. ↗

— Henry Kravis

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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future. ↗

— An Wang

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

— William Westmoreland

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If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving. ↗

— Henny Youngman

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If life didn’t give you at least one person not wanting you to succeed then half of us would lose are motivation to climb that cliff in order to prove them wrong. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#succeed #life

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. ↗

— Robert Burton

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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#archimedes #brain #did #direction #door

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. ↗

— Stephen Harper

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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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