Faltering Quotes

• Americas health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

  Paul Gillmor

  Country, Doctors, Years

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• At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

  Leon Botstein

  Education, Running, College

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• When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Dream, May, Way

  "Fictional character: Dracula". TV Series "Dracula" ("A Whiff of Sulfur", 2013), www.imdb.com. 2013–2014.

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• There will be mistakes and there will be falters. There will be things that are not a part of your plan. See the challenges in your life and accept them and embrace them.

  Dominique Dawes

  Life, Mistake, Acceptance

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• I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

  Charlie Trotter

  Failing

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• Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But often faltering feet Come surest to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet The sunrise of the soul.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Success, Wise, Strong

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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  America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

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• So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look like a deathless one on high but there's not a bit of grace to crown his words. Just like you, my fine, handsome friend.

  Homer

  Winning, Men, Self

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.284, Penguin

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• Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Jobs, Military

  Radio broadcast, 9 Feb. 1941

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• I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Feet, Obsession, Obsessed

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• The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

  Maya Angelou

  Encouragement, Heart, Needs

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.40, Random House

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• Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.

  Laozi

  Tasks, Rewards, Claims

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• Some of the memories were not clear - -dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Baby, Memories, Flower

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• Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Lying, Get Well, Cutting

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.

  Ouida

  Men, Water, Golden

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.466

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• For pale and trembling anger rushes in
  With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare,
  Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas,
  Desperate and armed with more than human strength.

  John Armstrong

  Anger, Eye, Sea

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.63

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• coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.

  Betsy Sholl

  Death, Spring, Grandmother

  Betsy Sholl (1986). “Rooms overhead”, Alice James Books

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• I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

  Hugh Jackman

  People, Looks, Gone

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, History, Mind

  Ayn Rand (1971). “The New Left: the Anti-Industrial Revolution”

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• Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share--maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded--never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.

  Anne Cassidy

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• The American spring is by no means so agreeable as the American autumn; both move with faltering step, and slow; but this lingering pace, which is delicious in autumn, is most tormenting in the spring.

  Frances Trollope

  Spring, Moving, Mean

  Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.124

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• The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Eye, Maturity, Feet

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• The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.

  Joseph Joffre

  Country, War, Safety

  General Joseph Joffre's proclamation, September 6, 1914.

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• To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

  Eric Liu

  Educational, Profound, United States

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• One naked star has waded through
  The purple shallows of the night,
  And faltering as falls the dew
  It drips its misty light.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Stars, Fall, Night

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.147, Indiana University Press

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