Failing Quotes - Page 23

• The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.

  Robert Southey

  Successful, Men, Soul

  Robert Southey (1832). “On Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform.-On the conduct of the war.-On the cry of the Whigs for peace, 1810.-Army and navy reforms, 1810.-On the economical reformers, 1811.-On the state of the poor.-The principle of Mr. Malthus's essay on population.-The manufacturing system, 1812.-On the state of the poor.-On the accounts of England by foreign travellers and the state of public opinion, 1816.-On the state of public opinion and the political reformers, 1816.-v.2 A letter to Will”, p.235

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• Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail
  To find some reason why the poor deserve
  Their miseries.

  Robert Southey

  Poverty, Reason Why, Misery

  Robert Southey (1854). “Ballads, metrical tales and other poems”, p.141

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Future, Space, Race

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• During the next 50 years, in countless cycles, in countless entrepreneurial companies, this let's just go and do it mentality will help us finally get off the planet and irreversibly open the space frontier. The capital and tools are finally being placed into the hands of those willing to risk, willing to fail, willing to follow the dreams.

  Peter Diamandis

  Dream, Future, Space

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• My dog does have his failings, of course. He's afraid of firecrackers and hides in the clothes closet whenever we run the vacuum cleaner, but, unlike me he's not afraid of what other people think of him or anxious about his public image.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Friendship, Running, Dog

  Gary Kowalski (2007). “The Souls of Animals”, p.15, New World Library

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• The words: never, can't, quit, and fail, are not in my vocabulary.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Vocabulary

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• When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that good equals money, or pleasure, or a bit of fame. By being mindful of this you'll quickly forget your anger, especially if you realize that the person was under stress, and could do little else. And, if you can, find a way to alleviate that stress.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mistake, Stress, Thinking

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• She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It's just a learning experience. It's an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life... Instead do again and make a journey of your life.

  Cesar Millan

  Real, Healing, Mean

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• To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

  Plutarch

  Failure, Harm

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• Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Failure, Long, Contentment

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.844

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• We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Failure, Done, Duty

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• Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Failure, Generosity, Degrees

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.53

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