"I'd rather be a failure at something I……" — George Burns
"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
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108 Quotes by George Burns
George Burns has 108 quotes on this site.
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at…
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or…
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Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it…
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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
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Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
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First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget…
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You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while…
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I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
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Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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More Failure Quotes
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
— Karen Armstrong
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
— Lance Armstrong
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
— Mary Kay Ash
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
— Paul Auster
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
— Charles Babbage
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get…
— Jensen Ackles
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not…
— Edward Bach
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People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't…
— Michele Bachmann
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