Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing. — LeBron James Copy Share Image
The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held… — Abu Bakar Bashir Copy Share Image
Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results. — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
I don't want to over think anything because the second I do, I start to fail. — Nicholas Thorburn Copy Share Image
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I find so many people struggling, often working harder, simply because they cling to old ideas. They want things to be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life.… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
It's ok to fail. Failing does not shape your personality; it's how you react upon your failure. Do you dust yourself off… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The EU remains our dream. We must not give it up. Otherwise Putin would win. His goal is to undermine the EU.… — Arseniy Yatsenyuk Copy Share Image
If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While… — John Elway Copy Share Image
Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly… — Jeff Bingaman Copy Share Image
The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The difference between those who fail to achieve their goals in life and those who succeed is the difference between those who… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
If we fail to feed the needy, we do not have God's love, no matter what we say. Regardless of what we… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
Upon the whole I doubt whether the Benefits of opposition to the Constitution opposition to the Constitution will not ultimately be productive… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
To me, this goes beyond disappointing. It shows that we are failing to gain ground on the very conditions we need to… — Bob Wise Copy Share Image
When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The actor's physical type is the main consideration. It isn't and shouldn't be. Does the actor "look the part"? It is the… — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs. — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
