Failing Quotes
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Or, bide thou where the poppy blows
With windflowers fail and fair.
William Cullen Bryant
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To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.
Will Self
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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
Michelangelo
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Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
Banana Yoshimoto
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Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.
Tim Pawlenty
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I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.
John Backus
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I was in college for two years but I didn´t attend too much. Then I decided to drop out. I was having too many nightmares about failing in the exams.
Gautam Adani
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It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
Seneca the Younger
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We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.
Martin David Fry
ABC
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If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.
Francis Chan
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Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?
Sarah Dessen
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Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.
Nolan Bushnell
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People mainly fail because they fear failure.
Sebastian Thrun
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I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
Whitney Houston
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Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.
Jane Powell
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Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?
George Chakiris
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Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
Mingled in harmony on Nature's face,
Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot
Fail not with weariness, for on their tops
The beauty and the majesty of earth,
Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget
The steep and toilsome way.
William Cullen Bryant
