Failing Quotes
3535 Failing quotes by 2358 unique authors
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The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream of…
— Ronald Reagan
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Fail miserably, achieve greatly!
— John F. Kennedy
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Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown,…
— Dan Quayle
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it…
— Charles Babbage
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Ladies and gentlemen, the economic disaster, the tailspin, the destruction of the greatest economic engine in the history of the world, these policies of Barack…
— Rush Limbaugh
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft,…
— Samuel Beckett
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God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
— Walt Whitman
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It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of…
— Alfred Bester
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There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.
— Kent Beck
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing…
— John D. Rockefeller
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Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.
— George Foreman
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We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only…
— Anthony Kennedy
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If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.” You need a definite plan, it should be written down, and it…
— Napoleon Hill
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Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!
— Napoleon Hill
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People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases…
— Napoleon Hill
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There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.
— Jay McInerney
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What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And…
— Paul Watson
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Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they…
— Heraclitus
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Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.
— Brian Herbert
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When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to…
— Frank Herbert
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It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side…
— Lauren Oliver
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It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
— Samuel Johnson
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At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be,…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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