Failing Quotes - Page 12

• I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

  Christopher Hampton

  Husband, Thinking, Rivals

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• If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

  Mark Twain

  Civilization, Tails, Paper

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells letters: the correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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• Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nails, Mindfulness, Scratches

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.625, Bantam Classics

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• I'm constantly failing, but not upset about it. I think there's a great deal to learn from that.

  Jared Leto

  Thinking, Upset, Deals

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• What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?

  Brian Tracy

  Dream, Dare, Ifs

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• Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

  Ricky Gervais

  Block, Trying, Building

  "The Internet Is My Playground" by Ricky Gervais, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

  Kevin Rose

  Pride, Trying, Shame

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• Don't be afraid to fail. I fail every day. I failed thousands of times writing The Book Thief, and that book now means everything to me. I had many doubts and fears about that book, but some of what I feel are the best ideas in it came to me when I was working away for apparently no result.
  
  Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Mean, Writing

  Interview With Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Distance, Differences, Risk

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough”, p.107, Knopf

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• We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Choices, Personal Choice, Aspire

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.169, Knopf

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• Love may fail, but #‎ courtesy will prevail.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  May, Courtesy

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Jailbird”, p.10, Random House

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• We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When 'important' individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do--to look into the face of God for ourselves.

  Oswald Chambers

  Light, Important, Going Away

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.244, Discovery House

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• Only Jesus Christ is uniquely qualified to provide that hope, that confidence, and that strength we need to overcome the world and rise above our human failings. To do so, we must place our faith in Him and live by His laws and teachings.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Teaching, Law

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• To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Praying, Break

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.23, Penguin

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• You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.

  Emma Stone

  Sports, Teamwork, Strong

  "Emma Stone profile: Quotes, photos, videos and selected filmography of BAFTA and Oscar nominee" by Mikey Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. February 04, 2015.

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• Any other foundation will fail, but Christ is a sure and steady rock to build your life on.

  Billy Graham

  Rocks, Foundation, Christ

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• Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Motivation, Character, Poverty

  "Time to Wake Up: Stop Blaming Poverty on the Poor". Essay by Barbara Ehrenreich, published in Maria Shriver "The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink", shriverreport.org. January 13, 2014.

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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

  Dream, Men, Know How

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• So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn't true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na`im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Blessing, Thinking

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• Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.

  Norman Cousins

  School, Understanding, Preparation

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• Morning comes every day; the sunrise does not fail, nor the sunset.
  Give it time. That is all that may be required. Just give it time. Do not try to push the river. The cycles of life present themselves, play themselves out, and make smooth every passage and terrain.
  Try not to get caught up in your story of the moment. Look, rather, to the Long Story. Therein will be found your peace. The cycles will redeem this moment, if you let them, and even this shall pass.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Morning, Sunset, Cycle Of Life

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 26, 2015

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• When kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like,'You know, I don't want to do this, but I know my mother's going to be mad.'That matters to kids, and it helps get them through.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Mother, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Safety, Storm, Temples

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• I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Writing, Order, Routine

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1985). “Tolstoy's Diaries”

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• Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.

  A. B. Simpson

  Warning, May, Worship

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