Our Failure Quotes
48 quotes by 46 authors
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Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.
— Muhammad Yunus
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I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted…
— George Edmund Street
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The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle…
— Mario Cuomo
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To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to…
— Graeme Goldsworthy
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If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable…
— Marshall Savage
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Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.
— Charles Colson
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It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.
— Harold B. Lee
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that is when we…
— James A. Owen
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Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say…
— C.S. Lewis
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I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations…
— Paulo Coelho
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Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible,…
— B.F. Skinner
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It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your…
— Conan O'Brien
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it,…
— Dallas Willard
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There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils.…
— Milton Friedman
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Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of reliable,…
— Paul Johnson
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The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our…
— Benjamin E. Mays
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Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based…
— Tim Wise
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We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Who Wrote These Our Failure Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 48 Our Failure Quotes, led by these top contributors: