Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.
Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.
Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.
I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.
Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force.
A lot of people don't get to succeed in life because they fail to put in their very best before leaving the rest in God's hands.
No one can succeed in breaking you down mentally, if you are always feeding some uplifting and hopeful words to your mind.
Some people become fully discouraged in life because of their series of mistakes and failures; while others succeed by consistently learning from theirs.
Nothing can succeed in stopping a man that has mastered the infinite power of the subconscious mind from reaching the territory of greatness.
It takes more than coming up with some great ideas to succeed in life. The land of success is only full of doers.
If you are having a problem with being your true self, how then would you succeed in being someone else you are not?
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.
The fact that we see something as evil may not necessarily make that thing evil. Evil cannot contest good; succeed and persist
Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.
To succeed in this day and age, all you need to be ahead of the pack is to be informed, and turn the information into transformation for your betterment and that of others.
When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.
