Failing Quotes - Page 40

• It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

  Iris Murdoch

  Succeed, Enough

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• ... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Education, Responsibility, Doe

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• The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing a special sense of sympathy for all who suffer and fail of justice.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Heart, Compassion, Race

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• The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the contradictory idea is impossible; a proof of fact is where all the reasons lead to belief, without there being any pretext for doubt; a probability is where the reasons for belief are stronger than those for doubting.

  Andrew Michael Ramsay

  Ideas, Doubt, Stronger

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• I've coached doing judo, but I've never coached MMA. I'll have my own coach with me to help me along the way and I can't really fail with him by my side, but I'm a little nervous.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mma, Littles, Way

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

  John Daly

  Fall, Expectations, Resistance

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Citizens, Economics, Duty

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• The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.

  Richard Ford

  Worthwhile, Knows, Asks

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• Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So 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

  Mistake, Lying, Struggle

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

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• (I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler when he signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Stalin was an evil character, to be sure. But cowardice really isn't the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Stalin ' that word is “sexy.” I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Sexy, Character, Thinking

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• The shame in life is not to fail to reach your dream, but to fail to have a dream to reach.

  Robert J Kriegel

  Dream, Life Is, Shame

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• To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

  Dennis Prager

  Idiot, Socialism, Socialist

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• After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Reading, Years, Tunes

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• Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

  Carol Roth

  Investing Money, Differences, Risk

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• When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Should, Standing

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• No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cheer, Writing, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?

  Amy Poehler

  Ideas, Knowing, People

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• I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades.

  Aldo Leopold

  Years, Two, Mountain

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.

  Mick Cornett

  Believe, Thinking, Government

  "Infrastructure Funds Benefit More Than The Economy". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, May, Seven

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.286, North Point Press

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• When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.

  Mason Cooley

  Nasty, Courtesy

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• People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

  Charles A. Murray

  Self, People, Needs

  "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010". Book by Charles A. Murray, 2012.

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• But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, since these advantages fail me, I shall win your approval, as I hope, by the help of my knowledge and my writings.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Writing, Winning, Ill Health

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Introduction, Section 4,

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• I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the past, some strange contradictions between Mossadeq's declared ends and his actions. Officially he defended nationalist anti-colonialism and was the most intransigent patriot who declared that no concessions or advantages should be granted to foreign powers. He described his doctrine as a "negative balance" and in fact his greatest failing was that he was negative.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Past, Leader, Balance

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, pp. 52-53, 1980.

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• I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.

  Doug Stanhope

  Art, People, Pieces

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