Fails Quotes

821 quotes by 701 authors

Don't sugar-coat results. Don't make yourself look good when your strategy fails. Don't make others look good if their strategy failed. — Theodor Billroth
I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label. I… — George Carlin
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing. — Arthur Miller
We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not… — Chris Hedges
The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses. — James Madison
Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation… — John Conyers
Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road… — Charles Kettering
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a… — Arthur Compton
Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing… — Shelby Steele
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box. — Steve Symms
The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is… — Michael Pollan
The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail. — Benjamin Franklin
If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl… — Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest attribute of God is Love. The Tree of Life is located in the very depth of our soul. The most perfect and abundant… — Baird T. Spalding
If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican… — Noah Webster
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a… — James Madison
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either… — Joseph Story
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human… — Henry Ward Beecher

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