Failing Quotes
3535 Failing quotes by 2358 unique authors
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Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is
— Edwin Louis Cole
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As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.
— Randy Pausch
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The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may…
— Alain de Botton
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The many fail: the one succeeds.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a…
— Ransom Riggs
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My faith is the only thing that never fails me.
— Hayley Williams
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When all else fails, complicate matters
— Aaron Allston
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If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can…
— Conor Cruise O'Brien
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If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.
— Mark Lawrenson
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When you blow it, God still celebrates His Son in you. The litmus test of whether or not you understand the gospel is what you…
— Matt Chandler
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Compared to my talents, Whoopi Goldberg is like one of those fake plastic Buddhas you get at dollar stores. I mean really, I fail to…
— Zach Braff
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I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the…
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
— Edward Dahlberg
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As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you…
— Joyce Maynard
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The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and…
— Caroline Knapp
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Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.
— Guy Finley
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All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.
— Lew Wallace
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In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures,…
— Ichiro Suzuki
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My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
— Michelle Shocked
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Of course the welfare of our children is a legitimate state interest. However, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples fails to further this interest. Instead, needlessly…
— Arenda L. Wright Allen
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If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.
— Miyamoto Musashi
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The only time we fail is when we stop trying.
— Chuck Norris
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