Failing Quotes
3535 Failing quotes by 2358 unique authors
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Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to…
— Patrick Henry
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When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out…
— Ayn Rand
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I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before…
— Michael Dell
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A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
— George Orwell
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Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that helps and never fails.
— Martin Luther
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By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. By our attitude, we decide to try or give up. By our attitude, we…
— Jim Rohn
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My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.
— Alexander the Great
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We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom,…
— Edward Abbey
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To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
— Rosa Parks
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
— Roland Barthes
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A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).
— Bill Mollison
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Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at…
— David Goggins
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When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it…
— Ernest Holmes
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It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.
— Anne Sweeney
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How beautiful it is to learn that Grace isn't fragile, and that in the family of God we can fail and not be a failure.
— Gloria Gaither
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We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
— Edmund Burke
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Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
— Lester R. Brown
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Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.
— Tim Pawlenty
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If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different…
— David Keirsey
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With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted,…
— Stephen Lang
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Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the…
— Colin Powell
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There's a buzz to failing and not dying.
— Stephen Colbert
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more…
— Agnes de Mille
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