Failing Quotes - Page 27

• The full implications of feminism will evolve over time, as we organize, experiment, think, analyze, and revise our ideas and strategies in light of our experiences. No theory emerges in full detail overnight; the dominant theories of our day have expanded and changed over many decades. That it will take time should not discourage us. That we might fail to pursue our ideas - given the enormous need for them in society today - is unconscionable.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Thinking, Light, Ideas

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• I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

  Olive Schreiner

  Spring, Two, Snow

  Olive Schreiner (2003). “Dreams”, p.56, A&C Black

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• We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.

  James F. Cooper

  Differences, Appreciate, Merit

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• A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Country, Fighting, People

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• He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Giving Up, Lying, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “In Tune with the Infinite”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Play, Black

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.

  Margaret Halsey

  Jobs, Creative, Ruins

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Never give up. The bankers and financial people did not take me seriously initially. Everyone thought I would fail. My attitude was that 'No' is an unacceptable answer when it comes to financing.

  Debbi Fields

  Giving Up, Attitude, People

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• Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.

  Elizabeth Wordsworth

  People, Enough, Conceit

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• It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Taken, Succeed, Done

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• If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.

  Emma Thompson

  Fall, Artist, Challenges

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• One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.

  Alice Sebold

  Mean, Stills, One Thing

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• The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism of the Christian religion; and, unless St. Paul was a woman in disguise, I fail to see how woman is to be blamed for a conception of her place and duty from which she has suffered more than anybody else.

  Dora Russell

  Christian, Stupid, Fighting

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• I don't think anyone's a failure as long as they're still innocent. Just a little. They may lose everything good in them but as long as they believe just a little in something very small, they're still innocent. To fail is to lose every bit of innocence.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Believe, Failure, Thinking

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• If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Careers, Trying, Levels

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• Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Book, Pages, Lasts

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• Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.

  Tom Bergeron

  Noses, Forget, Breathe

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• If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

  Plato

  Mistake, Made, Greater

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• When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

  Sue Grafton

  Perfect, House, Cleaning

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.180, Macmillan

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• The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Succeed, United Nations, Ifs

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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• It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

  Ian Hunter

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• Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

  Craig Groeschel

  Trying, Failure Is Not An Option

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• When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They can’t do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Health, Understanding, Weight

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.110, Penguin

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• Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary and the expected - even if they do it very well. The extent to which a job is routinized fails to give an advantage to anyone doing it because 'success' is seen as inherent in the very establishment of the position and the organization surrounding it. Neither persons nor organizations get 'credit' for doing the mandatory or the expected.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Jobs, Work, Organization

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• There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails.

  Susan Powter

  Couple, Two, Principles

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