Top 1200 Trying To Succeed Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I'm not trying to throw six or seven pitches just to be able to strike you out. I'm trying to do it in three or four. It's the homework and the process between starts that I really focus on to help me do that.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Hunger feeds the need to succeed.

I will do everything I can in future to help this great country succeed.

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.

If we succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone sacrificed for us.

We know there are a lot of good secondaries out there. We are just trying to focus on what we can do to get better. We've got some new, young guys coming in and we are trying to catch them up to speed. We are trying to make sure that we have depth, making sure the guys behind us know what is going on. We are going to keep pushing each other to raise the standard for our secondary.

Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

Trying to keep a society together, trying to keep the older and the younger people together, trying to keep those who live in rural areas together with those who live in cities is one of the most important and most noble tasks of politicians these days.

That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.

The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

The difference between those who succeed and fail: not taking advantage of opportunities.

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't?

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.

Hip-hop music, in my opinion, is still very closed-minded, and if you're trying to do something that's too different, you get categorized as trying to do some kind of "alternative hipster" thing.

If you can't quit no matter how hard you try, then you have a chance to succeed.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

No country can succeed if it denies itself the talents of half of its people.

I want to give the message that anyone can succeed given the opportunity.

Once you start [filming] you have researchers who are constantly giving you information. Ultimately it isn't about impersonating or trying to be an image of somebody and more trying to capture the spirit and the soul of the person somehow.

Influence is the platform God gives you to help others succeed.

Let's just say that I feel I have the ambition and determination to succeed as a coach.

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

As I was growing up, people were always trying to talk about their sexual conquests, trying to make themselves appear like a cassanova. I'm surprised you haven't heard that, I really am.

I think that humility is key to succeed and conquer your dreams.

I have learned from my own experience that if you work hard you will succeed.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Whenever you work with someone who you idolize, you realize... he's just a person trying to make a movie as best he knows how. And that doesn't look so different from other people trying to do the same thing.

I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.

Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.

When I was 20, I was the hustler - rubbing my temples, stressed, trying to get out the streets, trying to take my life to another side of the game with something I really loved to do: rap music.

My studies and my journey to succeed in the glamour world will go simultaneously.

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

I suppose in order to succeed at something you have to be very persistent. I've never done that.

If bad things happen to you as a kid, it's hard for you to succeed as an adult.

We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed.

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

Over the years, I have realised that it takes a great team for a film to succeed.

If you have luck on your side and are strong mentally, you can succeed in Europe.

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.

I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.

People who focus exclusively on efforts that matter, succeed. It's that simple.

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.

A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

We know there has been a history of needing to be closeted to succeed and be famous, especially in acting.