Failing Quotes - Page 22

• But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.

  Julian of Norwich

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right.' It never fails to see 'the little picture.

  Robert Holden

  Avid, Ego, Littles

  Robert Holden (2006). “Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life”

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• I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Sadness, Rooms, Excitement

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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• When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Care, Pay, Problem

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• Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility of style or visual stereotype; it creates new beauty or it doesn't.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Style, Doe

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• Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.

  Jack White

  Giving Up, Passion, Artist

  Jack White (2013). “Messages of Effusion: Challenging Answers for Perplexing Career Situations Artists Encounter”, p.103, Lulu Press, Inc

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• After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

  Alan Gottlieb

  Gun, Dust, Law

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• A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.

  Ron Paul

  Revolution, States

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• We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Our World, Poverty

  "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

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• Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a person's whole experience and life. And that always there's the chance that this will fail. That things will not work out.

  Chris Kraus

  Art, Writing, Work Out

  Chris Kraus (2000). “Aliens & anorexia”, Semiotext

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• The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.

  Giuseppe Zanotti

  Cutting, Past, Thinking

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• If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.

  Yossi Vardi

  Bankers, Should, Afraid To Fail

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• Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Forgiving, Debt, Neighbor

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.121

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• People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  People, Expectations, Drug

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1922). “My Life and Some Letters”

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• Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Development, Want

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.17

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• Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Law, Church

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724”, p.332

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• Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Thinking, Hair

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

  Frances Wright

  Clever, Men, Good Man

  Frances Wright (1831). “A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum”, p.31

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• Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Logic, Impulse, All The Best

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Early Spring in Massachusetts: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”, p.51, Library of Alexandria

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• A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Men, Ideas, Succeed

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• In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Character, Passion, Citizens

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.301, Hackett Publishing

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• What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.

  William Hazlitt

  Nice, Choices, Principles

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.468

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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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• 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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