Quotes with failure

Quotes 181 till 200 of 289.

  • Adolph P. Gouthey Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Berkeley Breathed That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Nigel Farage The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation.
    (2011)
    Nigel Farage
    British politician, activist, political commentator and broadcaster (1964 - )
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  • Sidney Madwed The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Anna Quindlen The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Audre Lorde The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Carroll Quigley The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Ben Bernanke The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Ben Stiller The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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  • Bob Woodward The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Allan Bloom The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency, the belief that the here and now is all there is.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Mark Caine The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Bruno Bettelheim The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
    Bruno Bettelheim
    Austrian-born psychologist, scholar and author (1903 - 1990)
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  • Robert Hayden The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Michael Korda The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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