But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.
I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.
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.
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
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.