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One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. — Abraham Maslow
Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail. — Abraham Lincoln
I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success. — Sachin Tendulkar
Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen… — Peter Stuyvesant
Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage… — Edward McKendree Bounds
It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray; but we… — George Muller
Even if you follow other people's advice and model successful people and their blueprints, you will still fail if you don't have confidence in yourself.… — Paulo Coelho
It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying… — Dan Simmons
"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence. — Robert Baden-Powell
God is in the water of the lake; he is also in the cracked bed of the lake when the lake has dried up. God… — Mansur Al-Hallaj
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its… — Walter Lippmann
Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent… — Andrew Soltis
Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack of… — Robert H. Schuller
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no. — William Glasser
If you ask people to do things and they usually don't get around to them, stop asking yourself, "What's the matter with people these days?"… — Ed Bliss
Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat. — Winston Churchill
We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something… — Anita Moorjani
No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption… — Samuel Johnson
You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application. — Calvin Coolidge
They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a… — Dixie Lee Ray
It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for… — Margaret Atwood
Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail. — Orson Scott Card
Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in… — Hugh Jackman

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