Failed Quotes

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When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the… — Sara Blakely
Paradoxically, the man who has failed and one who is at the peak of success are in exactly the same position. Each must decide what… — Kano Jigoro
It is not for you to judge the journey of another's soul. It is for you to decide who YOU are, not who another has… — Neale Donald Walsch
We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for… — George W. Merck
The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. — George W. Merck
His justice is the love that gives to each one of His creatures the gifts that His mercy has previously decreed. And His mercy is… — Thomas Merton
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to… — Barry Goldwater
I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math. — Unknown Author
He said, Contented? I am the MOST discontented man in the world! Don't you know I am the wealthiest man in the world? That is… — Rajneesh
The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one… — Henry David Thoreau
She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed… — Cesar Millan
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at… — Jane Rule
From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures… — Benjamin Franklin
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed. — Madeleine L'Engle
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its… — Simon Raven
Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing… — Jane Austen
With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed. — Tammy Bruce
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world. — William Allen White
Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote. — Kenny Marchant

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