Failing Quotes
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I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.
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Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.
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Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?
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You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.
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Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
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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.
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Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).
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When all else fails, fresh tactics!
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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.
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I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
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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.
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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.
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I wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana
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What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?
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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.
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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.
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Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
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Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.
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I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.
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Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.
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The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.
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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.
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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.
