Failing Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Hands, Tongue

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.1111, Bible Study Steps

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• Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success

  Donald Clark

  Inspirational, Learning, Simple

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• Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough and you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.

  John Travolta

  Life, Promise, Needs

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", edition.cnn.com. June 29, 2005.

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• My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

  William Shatner

  Life, People, Perfect

  Online chat, news.slashdot.org. December 05, 2002.

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• Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.

  Martin Henderson

  Character, Thinking, Play

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

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• One of kindness and integrity. I know I fail constantly, but I’m working towards being a reliable and worthy contributor to the world.

  Caitlin Stasey

  Kindness, Integrity, World

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• Those who stand in the way of virtue shall fail!

  Liu Bei

  Way, Virtue

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• 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

  Mind, Littles, Thousand

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

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• Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was writing about at the time - stories no one had any reason to think would succeed. My advice? Write what you want to read. You'll have more fun doing it - and if all else fails, you'll always have at least one loyal reader.

  Scott McCloud

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

  Cennino Cennini

  Art, Drawing, Sketching

  c.1400 Il Libro dell' Arte ('The Craftsman's Handbook').

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• It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.

  Twiggy

  Children, Animal, Care

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• Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have failings that aren't terribly difficult to detect especially if that is the aim.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Perfect, Gossip, Ugly

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• I think it's really important to be kind, especially to people whose lives are grim - I try hard to cheer people up in as many ways as I can - if all else fails - I tell 'em a joke!

  Jo Brand

  Cheer, Thinking, People

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• For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

  Gary Sloan

  Religion, Atheism, Machines

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• Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers.

  Arthur Cheney Train

  Law, Class, Soul

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