Failing Quotes
3535 Failing quotes by 2358 unique authors
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Of what good is our faith, our repentance, our baptism, and all the sacred ordinances of the gospel by which we have been made ready…
— Heber J. Grant
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Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.
— Newt Gingrich
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Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it's so easy to stop doing the very things that brought you to the…
— Robin Sharma
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Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it because we have…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
— William Penn
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In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
— Samuel Johnson
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What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?
— Rudyard Kipling
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Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise,…
— Robert Browning
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To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
— Plutarch
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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When all else fails, fresh tactics!
— John Travolta
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Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your…
— John Owen
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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
— John Milton
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He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the…
— James Russell Lowell
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Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole…
— George Washington
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There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which…
— Edith Hamilton
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We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.
— Christopher Pearse Cranch
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It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one…
— Aristotle
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll…
— Zach Galifianakis
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