It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
I do not promise to believe tomorrow exactly what I believe today, and I do not believe today exactly what I believed yesterday. I expect to make, as I have made, some honest progress within every succeeding twenty-four hours.
My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don't regret leaving the farm and ranch for the Army. Although I may have been a disappointment to my father, I achieved more than he could ever dream of in his short life.
If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess.
I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk.
The earliest desire of succeeding is almost always a prognostic of success.
When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.
It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
Succeeding in sport is about how much practise you put in.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next 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.
Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first.
I'm going to work with Dan Clowes. After Charlie Kaufman, it's hard to fill up the gap. It's hard to find somebody who. . . A lot of writers, I can clearly see the desire of succeeding before the desire of expressing themselves. Sometimes people get upset when you want to be different. You were talking about "whimsical," which is a nice word. But sometimes they use the word "quirky" in the pejorative sense. I get frustrated, because they feel like I'm doing whatever I want, and there is no ground, and I don't really care. They feel it's cynical. But I don't think I have any cynicism in me.
The way to expand our lives is to model the lives of those people who are already succeeding.
I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.
There are so many businesses that are succeeding on Yelp that don't pay us a dollar, and we're really excited about that.
The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India. . . [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.
Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.
