Failed Quotes
1604 quotes by 1228 authors
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The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the…
— Jeremiah Denton
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This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling, and we have…
— Robert Jensen
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Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just…
— Jackie French
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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin…
— Ferdinand Mount
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When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to…
— Norman Macbeth
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What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who…
— Charlie LeDuff
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I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.
— Anna Kamienska
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A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.
— Boris Beizer
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If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the…
— Dale Carnegie
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At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism.…
— Hemant Mehta
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Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there…
— Mary Pickford
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In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.
— Og Mandino
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It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to…
— William Matthews
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The difference between a winner and a loser - they both failed, but the winner gets back up and does it again and again until…
— Greg Plitt
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A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded…
— Timothy Keller
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The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness…
— Alice Miller
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To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
— Gijs de Vries
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But why should we not place implicit confidence in God and rely upon His word of promise? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Has…
— Arthur W. Pink
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