Succeeding Quotes

215 quotes by 195 authors

Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the… — Johann Gottfried Galle
A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes. — Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast. — Clarence Budington Kelland
There is a timelessness about sport. Like music and art, it is a quality that cuts across generations and nations. It provides a link between… — Greg Hartung
These are challenging and exciting times. No previous generation of Australians has ever had such an opportunity. No other country in the world has such… — John Yu
This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us.… — Ban Ki-moon
The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been… — George Monbiot
I think there is a big and significant difference between being a leader and being a manager-leaders lead from the heart. You have to be… — Andrea Jung
The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the imagination… — Anatoliy Golitsyn
I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding. — Maggie Gyllenhaal
The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches, from simple description… — Harryette Mullen
You shouldn't fear failure. You should fear succeeding at the wrong thing. I may fail, but I'm failing at the right thing. — Melissa d'Arabian
Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding,… — Edward Judson
If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just… — Gordon Brown
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love. — Ovid
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… — Karl Marx
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes… — David Mamet
An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a… — Roger Zelazny
If you're having trouble succeeding, fail. — Kent Beck
When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life. — Kofi Annan

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