I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.
If everybody else your age is doing something very different than what you're doing, there's always going to be someone saying to you you might not succeed with it, you might not make any money with that. . . there's always going to be some type of obstacle in the way. All of those things will go away if you really focus on what makes you happy.
I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.
You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.
Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first.
To succeed in any field, Our enthusiasm-eyes must sparkle and our enthusiasm-hearts Must dance.
The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.
If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.
Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail.
There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.
Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.
Meditation is just being delighted in your own presence. . . where you are not doing anything. The moment doing enters, you become tense; anxiety enters immediately. How to do? What to do? How to succeed? How not to fail? You have already moved into the future.
Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed.
One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.
I don't think they (the Chinese) have better friends in Africa than us. But when we compare to how much money we get, if we succeed, if the MCA is funded by the US Congress for Tanzania, it's going to be $700 Million. It's going to be huge, it may be a total of all the Chinese have been giving us all these years.
When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
When we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?
A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.