#succeeded

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#does #failed #much #succeeded #takes

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#activities #almost #common #common denominator #denominator

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung. ↗

— Earl Browder

#communist #could #doing #ever #history

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#being #brought #detail #entertained #familiar

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded. ↗

— Ferdinand Piech

#far #few #few people #force #me

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#asks #been #chances #getting #her

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#federal #federal government #reducing #scope #size

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#failed #few #few men #half #know

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. ↗

— Seth Godin

#being a leader #charisma #comes #gives #leader

We have never succeeded in slowing down our nuclear fusion reactors. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#fusion #never #nuclear #our #reactors