Failing Quotes
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Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.
W. Brett Wilson -
I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening; the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.
John Dalton
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I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.
William Powell -
Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).
F. M. Scherer -
I wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana
Vincenzo Luvineri Army of the Pharaohs -
I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC -
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
William Shakespeare -
She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.
William Congreve
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
William James -
An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham -
Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.
Brian Tracy -
A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.
William Cowper -
Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.
Tim Pawlenty -
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
Seneca the Younger
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God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.
William Barclay -
What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?
Brian Tracy -
We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.
William Gilmore Simms -
Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
Ahmed Chalabi -
We have to get the federal government out of the business of educating our kids and telling us how to do it. But when you look at how we are failing our kids and how the story that they hear about the United States and about the role we've played in the world and our role as the defender of freedom for millions across the world throughout history, you know, they aren't being prepared to stand up and work and fight and defend this nation.
Liz Cheney -
Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.
Jim Gaffigan
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Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
Saadi -
That sucks, though," Wes said finally, his voice low. "You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect." "Says who?" He just looked at me. "The world," he said, gesturing all around us, as if this party, this deck encompassed it all. "The universe. There's just no way. And why would you want everything to be perfect, anyway?" "I don't want everything to be perfect," I said. Just me, I thought. Somehow. "I just want—
Sarah Dessen -
Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.
Richie Sambora Bon Jovi -
Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill