Failing Quotes
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But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.
William H. Gass
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When people 'succeed' they tend to party, when they 'fail' they tend to ponder.
Anthony Robbins
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Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.
Michael Bennet
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We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.
William Shakespeare
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
William James
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Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
George Washington
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For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
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Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.
Brian Tracy
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Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
Vladimir Lenin
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I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.
Cameron Dokey
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Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The simple reason that most people fail financially is not because of the lack of a plan, it’s not because of good advice, it’s not even because of a lack of capital. It is for one reason—they attach more pain to the idea of having money, than NOT having it.
Anthony Robbins
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Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.
Edward Burne-Jones
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I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.
Willie Stargell
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We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."
Anthony Robbins
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I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
Layne Thomas Staley
Alice in Chains
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'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!
Reshma Saujani
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It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.
L. Ron Hubbard
