If your plans are failing, search your motives. When you do things for the wrong reasons, do not expect God to back you up.
Do what you have to do... before you do what you want to do.
The best way to succeed is to have a specific Intent, a clear Vision, a plan of Action, and the ability to maintain Clarity. Those are the Four Pillars of Success. It never fails!
Defeat counts when you let it count. Nothing can defeat you unless and until you allow it to overcome your zeal to succeed.
Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.
Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.
I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous decade, I would advise French businessmen on how to succeed in Germany; tell Americans what to do in Eastern Europe; show the Spanish how to become more like the Americans. I spent one particularly haunting year advising bankers in Mexico.
You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
If you don't share information among your startup's team, then it'll be just about a coincidence if product, marketing, and engineering are ever aligned. Those odds are too low to succeed.
I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.
I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.