Succeeding Quotes

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.