Failing Quotes - Page 39

• Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any shape we like, the tougher ones will fight back and end up spiteful and wild, while the less strong will lose that uniqueness they were born with.

  Melvin Konner

  Strong, Children, Fighting

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• A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Citizens, Economics, Duty

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• The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.

  Richard Ford

  Worthwhile, Knows, Asks

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• My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Going Away, United States

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.352, Best Books on

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• Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.

  Barry McGee

  Inspiration, San Francisco, Cities

  "'It Is Ultimately About Freedom': Barry McGee on His Prism Gallery Show and Berkeley Museum Retrospective". ARTINFO Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2012.

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• There is a glaring FEE in FrEEbie that most of the people, more often than not, fail to see.

  Anuj

  People, Fees

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• Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mistake, Lying, Struggle

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.606, Manonmani Publishers

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• (I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler when he signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Stalin was an evil character, to be sure. But cowardice really isn't the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Stalin ' that word is “sexy.” I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Sexy, Character, Thinking

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• It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Practice, Honor

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• The shame in life is not to fail to reach your dream, but to fail to have a dream to reach.

  Robert J Kriegel

  Dream, Life Is, Shame

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• To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

  Dennis Prager

  Idiot, Socialism, Socialist

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• Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Winning, Decision, Afraid To Fail

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• After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Reading, Years, Tunes

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• Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

  Carol Roth

  Investing Money, Differences, Risk

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• All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Important, Importance

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• When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Should, Standing

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• No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cheer, Writing, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Men, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.197, Delphi Classics

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• As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Men, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

  Anthony Trollope

  Success, Running, Mean

  Anthony Trollope (1865). “Can You Forgive Her?”, p.46

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• Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and being to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Gratitude, Exercise, Giving

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.69, e-artnow

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• I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?

  Amy Poehler

  Ideas, Knowing, People

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• I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades.

  Aldo Leopold

  Years, Two, Mountain

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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• ...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

  Peter James

  Success, Attitude, Thinking

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• I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.

  Mick Cornett

  Believe, Thinking, Government

  "Infrastructure Funds Benefit More Than The Economy". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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