Failing Quotes - Page 31

• It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.

  Abby Sunderland

  Kids, People, Decision

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.92, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.

  Abby Sunderland

  Passion, Parent, Trying

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.93, Thomas Nelson

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• It is almost certain that we will fail. But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal?

  Henning von Tresckow

  Men, People, Judging

  "Field Marshal Von Manstein, a Portrait" by Marcel Stein, (p. 247), April 20, 2007.

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• The ability to make a decision is another characteristic of a winner in money matters. I have found over and over again that those who succeed in making large sums of money reach decisions very promptly and change them, if at all, very slowly. I have also found that people who fail to make money reach decisions very slowly, if at all, and change them frequently and quickly.

  Venita VanCaspel

  People, Decision, Matter

  Venita VanCaspel (1988). “Money Dynamics for the 1990s”, Simon & Schuster

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• It has been said that if you aim at nothing in life, you are likely to hit nothing! I have never had anyone come to me and say, 'Venita, I plan to fail.' Yet I have observed many who failed to plan and who unfortunately met with the same dismal results.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Failure, Planning, Results

  Venita VanCaspel (1988). “Money Dynamics for the 1990s”, Simon & Schuster

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• If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Children, Trying

  Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

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• If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.

  Margery Wilson

  Taken, Self, Discipline

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• your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichés because clichés are sociable.

  Carol Bly

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

  Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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• most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the instrumental use of knowledge continues to redefine the nature and purpose of organizations, we will begin to look at those on the front lines for leadership.

  Sally Helgesen

  Leadership, Believe, Organization

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• I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he's the wrong one for me.

  Linda Barnes

  Dating, Guy, Chemistry

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Snapshot”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Calamity, Worst

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• Women also lose sight of their goals by taking on extra responsibilities. We are virtual responsibility magnets. We don't make these decisions consciously or deliberately, but out of the fear that if we don't act on a need, it will never get resolved. ... But we fail to realize that once we become responsible for something, we may be responsible to it forever.

  Pat Heim

  Responsibility, Sight, Goal

  Pat Heim, Susan K. Golant (2005). “Hardball for Women: Revised Edition”, p.211, Penguin

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• Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

  Madhuri Dixit

  Numbers, Age, Talent

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• I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

  Arabella Weir

  Teacher, Opportunity, Luxury

  "Once Upon A Life: Arabella Weir" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• It's ok to fail. Failing does not shape your personality; it's how you react upon your failure. Do you dust yourself off and mope or do you dust yourself off and come back stronger the next time? Eventually you will win. It may not happen the next time, it may take a little time but you will win in the end.

  Tiger Woods

  Motivational, Winning, Dust

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• If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.

  James Hansen

  Motivation, Different, Protection

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• Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.

  Ron Kaufman

  Mistake, Service Culture, Honest

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• Promise too much and you'll have plenty of room to fail. Promise little and you'll have plenty of room to excel.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Promise, Littles

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• Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Simple, Errors

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

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• In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

  Aristotle

  Men, Sprung Up, Justice

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

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• Every day, without fail, I eat some dark chocolate.

  Phoebe Tonkin

  Dark, Chocolate, Dark Chocolate

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

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• I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Our Veterans, Proud, Veteran

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• Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.

  Napoleon Hill

  Perfect, Mind, Letters

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• I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.

  Kim Alexis

  Jesus, New York, Boys

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• When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

  Dean Koontz

  Return, Desperation, Endless

  Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson (2007). “Frankenstein: Prodigal Son: A Novel”, p.422, Bantam

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