Successes Quotations

Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive.

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.

In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.

Having a support system is huge for writers. My parents were always encouraging and told me they were behind me, whether or not I made it in the business. My wife was always there for my successes and failures.

I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself.

I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures.

I certainly think Halle Berry's a wonderful role model. She's a terrific stepmother and has shown that in so many beautiful ways and has made such enormous strides for women culturally and such great successes as an actress and philanthropist.

I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.

I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.

That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.

News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.

I've been through the entire gamut of the music industry - I've been playing in clubs since I was 14, and I've been on Warner Bros, on Sony - I've had lots of successes and some serious times of struggle.

I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as it seems only polite to do so. But at heart it's absurd; we should band together against the big common enemies.

I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.

There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

My successes already accomplished have mostly been taking existing science and getting people to apply it in their everyday lives.

One of the greatest things about my job is that I can enjoy all the successes of a show, but can still go out in public, not like say, Michael Jordan.

One of the major successes of the tournament so far has been the refereeing, because I can't recall many people talking about it. There have been very few bad incidents, hardly any citing offenses and (Watson's) looking forward to tomorrow's game and so are we.

One failure is worth seven and a half successes

Moderate successes are good, because if they do better than the shows they replaced, it's still a success for the networks.

Max was a genuine icon, a down-to-earth Cajun with a very nuts-and-bolts approach to engineering, ... He contributed immeasurably to America's successes in human space flight. His genius allowed us to compete and win the space race to the moon.

McGill is a university known around the world for a lot of things, mostly for the quality of our students and our professors and the successes of our research and teaching.

So many land managers and owners are doing incredible work in vegetation management. We want to help these people share their vegetation management projects and successes with each other, and reward those projects that showcase the very best in Quality Vegetation Management practices.

GM had some notable sales successes as we continued to expand in key growth markets around the world in 2005.

Carl was a vital part of any successes we achieved this season. He utilizes his resources better than anyone I've ever seen.

To date, despite our many successes in individual businesses, we have not made the degree of progress we would like toward realizing that potential, ... We've assembled the right parts, but after years of additions, our resulting structure is neither as efficient nor as effective as it needs to be." ()

He did OK, but he wasn't throwing great. Still, with his successes in the past, you want to have a guy like him if you can. So we brought him in and he's throwing much better now. He's coming around.

I am extremely excited to join the Champ Car team as President. I have been amazed at the progress the series has made over the last twelve months and look forward to continuing the momentum and successes long into the future. Champ Car has a great vision as well as committed teams, owners, sponsors and promoters. Open wheel racing has work to do and Champ Car is getting it done.

Greg has an unparalleled track record of helping services-based technology companies grow into market leaders and we are ecstatic that, out of all of his choices, he has decided to bring his franchise to Descartes. With the successes and results our customers have achieved using our new solutions and services, together with our new field organization, Greg has a strong platform on which to help us build our future successes.

He was very self-effacing and shy. He was not one to wear his successes on his sleeve or advertise them to the public.

History records the successes of men with objectives and a sense of direction. Oblivion is the position of small men overwhelmed by obstacles.

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.

Look at their successes -- there are more positives to being a Colts fan than people may feel right now.

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Spirit and Opportunity are approaching targets that a year ago seemed well out of reach. Their successes strengthen NASA's commitment to a vision with the ambitious targets of returning samples from Mars and sending human explorers to Mars.

Past successes are bridges that lead us to our next victory.

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

It is an honor to win again this award for our annual report, which is our prime marketing piece. We are pleased that the judges agreed with us that the report does an excellent job in highlighting the many recent economic development successes of High Point.

I think there's pressure, period, regardless of the past successes or failures of any of my friends,

Pakistan have gathered momentum after their test and one-day successes against England. So have we, after our recent run of successes.

Our vision is to build a dynamic international organization that connects members with meaningful content, resources and opportunities. We aim to help students like Nicole build on their academic successes and enhance the skills and desires to have a positive impact on the global community.

I take great pride in the numerous accomplishments of our management team and the competence, drive and successes of our exploration group which is now being recognized by the growing number of Confidentiality Agreements that are now in place or under consideration. With the largest exploration undertaking on the African Continent, I look forward to more announcements of progress for our investors and potential industry partners.

Those are the kinds of things you look back on and realize that so many people benefit from passing along their experiences, their successes and their failures. It meant a lot to me.

The announcement from Northrop Grumman Corporation is the latest in a growing series of successes for 1394 in some very exciting and valuable applications. Their testing program for the polar orbiting satellite system demonstrates the benefits of 1394. These include very high speed data transport, peer-to-peer connectivity which eliminates the need for a central controlling host, flexible topology which makes it easy to add devices on an as needed basis, and efficient allocation of bandwidth which benefits configurations which include a variety of devices with varying throughput needs. These are the attributes of 1394 that continue to move it into new product groups, and we are very pleased to hear of their application in the fault-tolerant chipset for the satellite program.

We're very thankful for the successes we've had. And I'm grateful to have sons who are so competent. Bill is the heart of this company. He borders on genius. He has an instinct for good design. And Tom is a financial wizard.

You have to draw on previously experienced successes to have your confidence. You have to try to keep that in your mind instead of dwelling on the bad part.

Wilderness preservation is one area of environmental progress where Congress could write a surprisingly impressive record of accomplishment in 2006. In state after state, ordinary citizens inspired by these successes are working hard to encourage Congress to complete action on other pending wilderness proposals.

We couldn't have landed this account at a better time. Our continued successes working with consumer products companies across the United States are again reflected in McCormick's appointment of us. I am especially thrilled because McCormick is a Maryland-based company. I was born and raised in Maryland and our home office is located in Annapolis -- not far from McCormick's Maryland headquarters. Of course, it does not get any better than Maryland Crabs and Old Bay seasoning (one of McCormick's many fine products)!

The real estate market has been one of the big successes in the economy for the last 10 years. I think this would help pull the rug out from under it. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

The only problem they have is the high valuation, ... This company has had a lot successes, they have a great pipeline, and I think they'll have many successes over the next few years. But it's an expensive stock.

We want to build on the successes of last year. We can't get caught up in resting on our laurels or dwelling on what we accomplished,

We use this less-conservative format to celebrate the successes and to thank businesses for their investment in the economic development of our community.

We've strengthened communications, strengthened the processes. In effect, it's back to the future. We're looking at what made missions successes in the past.

Today's appointments underscore our commitment to energize and build our direct sales channels as demand from enterprises for high-quality IP services grows. As we build on our recent successes and seek to grow our business, these leaders will enable the enterprise sales force to serve our core market of enterprise and collaboration services customers with even greater success.

We're doing something innovative that people haven't done before. We're building really cool stuff here. But we waited until we had some successes before we started the process of going public. And once we decided to take that step, there was a lot of work that went into it.

The past two seasons have been great successes as far as overall improvement in times and getting kids qualified for state.

We are pursuing a dual strategy in China. First, we have outstanding W-CDMA know-how and the sales successes to match. Second, we assumed a pioneering role for TD-SCDMA in China at the right time.

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

With 46 wins in the last two seasons and six straight winning seasons, they have contributed to a lot of the successes we have enjoyed. In my long term commitment towards the future, I ... felt these moves were necessary for the continued progress of the program.

While much has been done, much still remains to be done. The reform process, which has achieved major successes in the last two years, must be pursued.

We don't look at individual accolades. We measure our successes in how our teams fare and I think that speaks volumes about Andy Polka.

We have been in similar situations in so many instances. We know what it is like to do without. Every year gets better and better because we know where the funds are going, and see the successes that this money brings.

We appreciate the hard work and efforts that Rich and Greg have extended on behalf of this program over the past seven years. With 46 wins in the last two seasons and six straight winning seasons, they have contributed to a lot of the successes we have enjoyed. In my long?term commitment toward the future, I wanted to move Brian to director of basketball operations and felt these moves were necessary for the continued progress of the program.

We are at the end of an historic process, ... It has been a long path, a path full of successes and failures.

Doug brings valuable management experience. He's an enthusiastic leader who has a successful track record of working extremely well with employees, physicians and community members, which is most recently demonstrated by the many successes he has helped to achieve at Estes Park Medical Center.

At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard.

At the forefront of GE's 2006 strategic plan is the goal to further promote growth, employment, transfer of knowledge and technology across the Middle East. Building on the successes of 2005 in the region, we will explore development opportunities in these key areas.

While the president continues to highlight the successes of our troops, and the plan for victory in Iraq, his opponents in the Congress have yet to provide a plan of their own.

I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.

The successes of the differential equation paradigm were impressive and extensive. Many problems, including basic and important ones, led to equations that could be solved. A process of self-selection set in, whereby equations that could not be solved were automatically of less interest than those that could.

The successes we have enjoyed have not been down to three people. It is also true that each history has an end.

Andy is one of the most experienced individuals in telecommunications sales. He has a proven track record and has consistently demonstrated the highest degree of integrity and professionalism while generating great successes for the companies he has worked for, many of which have become major players in our space. We are confident that Andy's leadership and expertise will help drive our global sales force to further permeate the market with World Wide Packet's cutting edge Carrier Ethernet products.

To see talented people in roles that others might not see them in, to see how they might fit in the puzzle of the cast, has always been something that I've been good at. I think that if you look at the successes of my films and start to peel them back, there's usually a really smart casting decision that has gone into that success.

This operation, in my view, is one of the great successes

We are very pleased with our accelerated time to market as evidenced by delivering the market's first workforce optimization solution, and the ability to meet our customers' requirements and changing needs even more effectively. Key to this was our relationship with FCG India, many of whose employees will soon join Witness Systems' global R&D organization. The initial impact they've had on the business has been significant, and we look forward to many more achievements and successes driven out of this arm of our R&D operation.

We are very pleased with the continued flight test successes that validate the efforts of the Air Force and Lockheed Martin to improve quality and reliability, as we committed to Congress.

successes we are making in some parts of the country.

Thanks in large part to you and your active, fruitful efforts, Russia achieved fundamental successes in building a democratic government based on the rule of law and a civilized civil society, as well as in reviving traditional spiritual values.

With 'One Little Victory,' I love the idea that Neil is the one who starts the record and he starts it with such a fury and it just says, 'We're back.' And the whole sentiment of that song about being aware of those little successes -- the daily little things that really count -- that we so often take for granted.

I've long been a fan of Lifetime Television and deeply respect the successes they've enjoyed as the destination for women, ... Their interesting and engaging mix of movies and series is an outstanding foundation upon which to build, and I'm looking forward to this great opportunity to bring a new generation of hits to the network.

You're really only as good as your recruiting classes are. I think some our program's successes have been taken for granted after averaging 21 wins a season over the last 37 years. That's something we're really proud of, but we've had a lot of really great players here that made that possible.

The modern infrastructure, past operational performance, and recruiting/retention successes combine to make the 148th one of the premier Air National Guard organizations in the country and serve as a basis for continuation of the 148th,

The most glowing successes are but reflections of an inner fire.

That?s where you respond to incremental successes with something that gives you personal pleasure.

As for now, we are listening to and watching other cities with Main Street districts and learning from their successes and mistakes,

Safety Harbor, like us, has a one-straight-shot main street retail district. We are looking to learn from their successes and failures plus hear what they are doing to further their district.

Sometimes the biggest successes aren't the guys you hear the most about.

A dominant player. He just brought a relentless style of play, a great leader. We'll certainly miss him. We loved to coach him. He was very, very unselfish, not caught up in the successes he had as an individual.

In Canberra my vision of what could happen in nuclear physics really depended on the big successes we might have had in the particle physics area.