Failing Quotes
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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.
John Dalton
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Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.
Jim Gaffigan
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Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).
F. M. Scherer
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I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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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
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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
Vincenzo Luvineri Army of the Pharaohs
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It's ok to FAIL it's not ok to Quit
Chris Gardner
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Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.
Brian Tracy
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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.
William Ernest Hocking
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Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
Saadi
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When all else fails, fresh tactics!
John Travolta
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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.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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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.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.
W. Brett Wilson
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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.
William Glasser
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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.
Anthony Robbins
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Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
William Barclay
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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.
William E. Simon
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The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Nami Mun
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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.
Liz Cheney
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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.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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An army of lovers shall not fail.
Rita Mae Brown
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If you don't fail on a regular basis, you are not trying hard enough.
William Reddington Hewlett