Failing Quotes
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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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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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Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.
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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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Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).
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It's ok to FAIL it's not ok to Quit
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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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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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Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
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When all else fails, fresh tactics!
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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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Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.
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One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.
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People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.
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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.
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The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
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Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
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I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.
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An army of lovers shall not fail.
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The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.
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It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.
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Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.
