Quotes with failing

  • Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
  • We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
  • When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!
  • Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
  • Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
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  • Benjamin Franklin By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Max Lerner Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Alan Lakein Failing to plan is planning to fail.
    Alan Lakein
    American author on personal time management
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  • Arsenio Hall I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
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  • Martin Farquhar Tupper 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
    English writer and poet (1810 - 1889)
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  • Bob Menendez By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • H. Stanley Judd Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
    H. Stanley Judd
    American author
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Helen Rowland Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Rita Mae Brown For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Sean O'Casey Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Bruce Rauner I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children.
    Bruce Rauner
    American businessman, philanthropist and politician (1956 - )
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  • Anni-Frid Lyngstad I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.
    Anni-Frid Lyngstad
    Norwegian-Swedish singer and environmentalist
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Pope Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bill Flores It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Seneca It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Anne Sullivan Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Ben Stein Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Benjamin Watson Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don't condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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