Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Perseverance, Mean, Men

• Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Succeed, Impossible

• The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Failing, Sincerity

• There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Accomplishment, Grace

• It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Succeed, Failing, Enough

• We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Failing, Convince, Minors

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