Failing Quotes
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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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Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
Stephen Fry
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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
Vinod Khosla
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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 believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.
Sarah Dessen
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Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
William Shakespeare
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All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.
Michael Moorcock
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Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.
Christopher Bollen
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The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.
William Glasser
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I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
Lois McMaster
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His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.
Sandra Bullock
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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
Dante Alighieri
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Upon the whole I doubt whether the Benefits of opposition to the Constitution opposition to the Constitution will not ultimately be productive of more good than evil; it has called forth, in its defence, abilities which would not perhaps have been otherwise exerted that have thrown a new light upon the science of government, It has given the rights of man a full and fair discussion, and explained them in so clear and forcible a manner, as cannot fail to make a lasting impression.
George Washington
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The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.
Kevin Warsh
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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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The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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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
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The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.
Sebastian Junger
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Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time.
Seneca the Younger
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You have these Stepford wives who are negating other women. But that's their job. [Donald] Trump is the one who is to blame, no matter how much I enjoy watching his surrogates fail massively.
Kathleen Hanna
Bikini Kill
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Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.
Anthony Robbins
