Failing Quote by Blaise Pascal Download Open image “All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.” — Blaise Pascal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failing Failure Identity Maxims Self Selfishness World
There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The highest ideal of life is to be true to oneself, and the worst is to lose one's true self for the sake of… — Shiva Negi Copy Share Image
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves. — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“The maxim, as has been already said, is a general statement, and people love to hear stated in general terms what they already believe… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“We spend too much time trying to be “good” when good is often merely average. To be great we must be different. And that… — Eric Barker Copy Share Image
You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image
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