Our Failure Quotes
48 quotes by 46 authors
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The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even if they fall short, sharing…
— Ahmad Rashad
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Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the…
— Paul Keating
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The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn…
— Benjamin Bloom
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It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.
— Conan O'Brien
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Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism,
— Margaret Sanger
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world,…
— Walter Pater
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Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a…
— Rowan Williams
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We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.
— Mira Sorvino
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Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.
— M. King Hubbert
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Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from…
— Bill Gates
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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world,
— A.C. Grayling
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
— Ramana Maharshi
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
— Alain de Botton
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If our failure to consistently worship the true God is the key feature of sin, we are sinners all.
— Edward T Welch
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As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed…
— Jeanne Woodford
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Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of…
— Richard M. Nixon
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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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We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who…
— Helmut Schoeck
Who Wrote These Our Failure Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 48 Our Failure Quotes, led by these top contributors: