Failing Quotes - Page 24

• Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

  John Owen

  Failure, Giving, Ruins

  John Owen (1839). “The Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man: To which are Subjoined, Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ”, p.567

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• We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Failure, Men, Veils

  Christopher Pearse Cranch (1844). “Poems”, p.51

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• It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

  Aristotle

  Failure, Missing, Way

  Nichomachean Ethics (c. 330 b.c.).

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• I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Writing, Night, Trying

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2007.

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• A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.

  Beverley Nichols

  Eye, Garden, Cities

  Beverley Nichols (1932). “Down the garden path”, Doubleday, Doran & co., inc.

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• Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.

  Ernest Holmes

  Flower, Tree, Abundance

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.408, Penguin

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• When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder.

  Tony Robbins

  Party, People, Succeed

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jan 23, 2015

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• When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Faults, Study, Forget You

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• Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

  Simon Van Booy

  Mean, Successful, Records

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• What's worth doing even if you fail?

  Brené Brown

  Ifs

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• Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Slavery, Republic

  Frederick Douglass (2017). “Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn”, p.198, Akashic Books

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• A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
  Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:
  For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe;
  His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate,
  On earth is not his equal.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Crafts, Earth

  Martin Luther (1931). “Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought”, Ams PressInc

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• God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish his love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith does not earn it any more than our stupidity jeopardizes it. God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.

  Max Lucado

  Evil, Stupidity, Succeed

  Max Lucado (2003). “Just Like Jesus Devotional: A Thirty-Day Walk with the Savior”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you make mistakes that is alright because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.

  Wangari Maathai

  Mistake, Rising, Gains

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• I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Cutting, Tree, Desire

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• No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Perfect

  "Mother India's Lighthouse: India's Spiritual Leaders". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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• Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving. If we, His stupid and wayward sheep, really want to be led, we will without fail be led. Of that I am sure.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Stupid, Sheep, Want

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• No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

  Goldwin Smith

  Artist, Age, Students

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

  Mark Twain

  Civilization, Tails, Paper

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells letters: the correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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• Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nails, Mindfulness, Scratches

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.625, Bantam Classics

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• What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?

  Brian Tracy

  Dream, Dare, Ifs

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• Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

  Ricky Gervais

  Block, Trying, Building

  "The Internet Is My Playground" by Ricky Gervais, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Don't be afraid to fail. I fail every day. I failed thousands of times writing The Book Thief, and that book now means everything to me. I had many doubts and fears about that book, but some of what I feel are the best ideas in it came to me when I was working away for apparently no result.
  
  Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Mean, Writing

  Interview With Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• 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 must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When 'important' individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do--to look into the face of God for ourselves.

  Oswald Chambers

  Light, Important, Going Away

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.244, Discovery House

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