To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Long shots do come in and hard work dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

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

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

There is no longer time for statements like "if only" or "we can't." We must and we will succeed. The only question now is how and when. I believe the time is now.

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

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

People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed.

He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

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

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