Failing Quotes
3535 Failing quotes by 2358 unique authors
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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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The fearful are the failing.
— Sarah Josepha Hale
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Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of…
— Joseph J. Romm
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If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.
— Amy Lowell
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If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.
— Jillian Michaels
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I want you to take a moment here and write down all the problems that are plaguing you at this moment, from big to small.…
— Jillian Michaels
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. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless…
— Grenville Kleiser
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My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice…
— Laozi
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When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to…
— Alan Cohen
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We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness…
— Julia Cameron
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It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
— Vince Lombardi
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Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not tell you so. Love demands a personal commitment to the will…
— Pope John Paul II
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Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.
— Richard Bach
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I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped…
— Lady Gaga
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When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.
— Glenn Reynolds
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The Republican party is not a church. It does not promulgate doctrine and then exclude those who fail to share it. But political parties must…
— Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
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Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love…
— Zhuangzi
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I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.
— Charlotte Alington Barnard
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Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered…
— Charles Darwin
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... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of…
— Julia Lathrop
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Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of…
— Garrison Keillor
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When we work so hard at our preparations for Christmas, we often feel cheated and frustrated when others fail to notice the results of our…
— Ellyn Sanna
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Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
— Gautama Buddha
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