Failing Quotes
3535 Failing quotes by 2358 unique authors
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It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.
— Georges St-Pierre
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I add my personal witness: Our missionaries are not salesmen with wares to peddle; rather, they are servants of the Most High God, with testimonies…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.
— Paul of the Cross
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Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!
— Unknown Author
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It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four times in the…
— Unknown Author
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Under the sacred and compelling trust we have as members of the Church of Jesus Christ, ours is a work of redemption, of lifting and…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on,…
— David Hume
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
— Teresa of Avila
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Let us throw ourselves into the ocean of His goodness, where every failing will be canceled and anxiety turned into love.
— Paul of the Cross
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Luck plays no role in art world success. It's your own responsibility to create your success, which is a result of making thousands of constant…
— Mark Kostabi
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It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The…
— Noam Chomsky
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Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?"
— Iimani David
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People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
— Alan Watts
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I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.
— John Engler
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In the West, marriage is collapsing because it is based on love. And a marriage that is based on love is bound to fail. There…
— Rajneesh
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Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to…
— Phil McGraw
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"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You…
— Swami Vivekananda
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One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.
— Josh Marshall
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Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.
— Mike Cloud
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