Pastoral Resources

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has united us. Perhaps as a unit we can help each other get ahead, survive and succeed in this free world. And hey guys, let's not forget out manners!!

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.