Failing Quotes - Page 9

• This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.

  Louise Erdrich

  Night, Order, Next

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• Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

  Brian Tracy

  Easy, Habit, Achieve

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals”, p.20, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.

  Seth Godin

  Enjoy

  Seth Godin (2006). “Free Prize Inside: The Next Big Marketing Idea”, p.245, Penguin UK

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• In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong for us, we fall prey to putting the outside world’s needs before our own. We then disconnect from the enormity of our power and our ability to create what we want.

  Debbie Ford

  Integrity, Fall, Understanding

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• The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

  Simon Sinek

  Trying, Experiments, Experimentation

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2011

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• The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing

  Thomas S. Monson

  Lighthouse, Lord, Signals

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• I say to everyone within the sound of my voice, 'Do not fail the Lord'. We must accept the truth that the gospel principles are not on trial but that we are.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Voice, Sound, Principles

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• Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.

  Richard G. Scott

  Father, Earth, Succeed

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• The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways

  Mike Brown

  Knowing, Risk, Involved

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• It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

  Larry Page

  Enough, Aim High, Hard

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• The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Average, May

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• When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Shining, Joy

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• By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.

  Jeb Bush

  Real, Responsibility, Blame

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• Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Happiness, Ideas, Mind

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• She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle...she fails in the end but there's something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.

  Kate Winslet

  Beautiful, Struggle, Decision

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• The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a "right" that prisoners have; namely the freedom to bypass the public system when it fails to provide reasonable access?

  Brian Day

  Citizens, Canada, Bypass

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• Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Successful, Risk, Management

  "Redesigning the Future: a Systems Approach to Societal Problems". Book by Russell L. Ackoff, p. 8, 1974.

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• Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Business, Opportunity, Errors

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• If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.

  Jeff Bezos

  Innovation, Needs, Company

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• Thou fail to perceive mineself!

  John Cena

  Superstar, Perceive

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• If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational Running, Track, Auditions

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• Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Marriage, Failure

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.165, Jazzybee Verlag

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• ..Whoever dewlls on beauty tends to become beautiful; there will be a grace and charm to expressing itself through that person which no one can fail to recognize and appreciate.

  Ernest Holmes

  Beautiful, Simple, Appreciate

  Ernest Holmes (2015). “Can We Talk to God?: Ebell Lectures”, p.41, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to write to some of our Doctors very particularly about it, if I knew anyone of 'em that I thought had Virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of Revenue for the good of Mankind, but that Distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their Resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fashion, Pain, Writing

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1816). “Lettres de Lady Marie Wortley Montagu, 'ecrites Pendant Ses Voyages en Europe, en Asie Et en Afrique”, p.322

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• All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

  Samuel Johnson

  Understanding, Triumph, Acrimony

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.196

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