Their Failure Quotes
32 quotes by 28 authors
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The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going…
— Sun Tzu
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But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst…
— William James
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The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function…
— Walter Lippmann
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Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The CONCEPT is though that you have to get an AGREEMENT BY CONTRACT and you KNOW that they are NOT going to respond. So the…
— Jack Smith
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Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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Your home needs to be a place where your kids can fail—and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they…
— Kevin Leman
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We will not find the solution to problems of violence, alienation, ignorance, and unhappiness in increasing our security, imposing more tests, punishing schools for their…
— Nel Noddings
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The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens…
— Arthur Miller
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need…
— Timothy Keller
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Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
— Tullian Tchividjian
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A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. This sequence is…
— John C. Maxwell
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The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no…
— Aldrich Ames
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The principal reason, invariably, most "successful" giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool…
— Tom Peters
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Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the…
— Henri Lefebvre
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations…
— Irving Babbitt
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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their…
— Major Taylor
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Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure…
— Vijay Mallya
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I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my…
— John D. Rockefeller
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Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.
— Jeff Olson
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