Failing Quotes
3535 Failing quotes by 2358 unique authors
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If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Fans, don't fail to miss tomorrow's game.
— Dizzy Dean
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There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker
— Mike Figgis
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It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop…
— John Wooden
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There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail
— Michael Jordan
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The guys who take shortcuts, who aren't ready, they fail when their opportunity comes
— Tom Thibodeau
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough…
— Colin Powell
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Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those…
— Richard Rohr
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The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.
— T.H. White
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The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.
— Dan Simmons
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She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions.
— John C. Maxwell
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An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
— Robert Breault
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Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in…
— Austin O'Malley
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In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
— John Maynard Keynes
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It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the…
— Paul Watzlawick
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We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.
— Richard Sennett
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The differing opinions regarding the gospel are often categorized as different variations of the same truth, or coming at the same truth from different angles,…
— Paul Washer
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I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the…
— J C Ryle
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It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.
— Johan Cruijff
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Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Most of our businesses do succeed, but if something completely fails, then as long as we bow out gracefully and pay off all our debts,…
— Richard Branson
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