Quotes of: Failing Keyword

If life is a classroom then you’re still in the learning process part. In the learning process part, if you make a mistake you can just erase it and try again. In a classroom your mistakes deserve course correction and education, not punishment. He...

Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness

If any of us had heard the word "feminist" we would have thought it meant a girl who wore too much makeup, but we were, without knowing it, feminists ourselves, bound together by the freemasonry that exists among intelligent women who know they are i...

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

Writers make everybody nervous but we terrify Silly Service workers. Our apartments always look like a front for something, and no matter how carefully we tidy up for guests we always seem to miss the note card that says, "Margaret has to die soon." ...

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who exaggerate the importance of one event and fail to mention some other; such a critique is proper (it cannot fail to be), but it doesn't count for much...

Ignorance

The only absolute truth is change, and death is the only way to stop change. Life is a series of judgments on changing situations, and no ideal, no belief fits every solution. Yet humans need to believe in something beyond themselves. Perhaps all int...

The Parafaith War

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and bl...

Theodore Roosevelt

Love is a devoted madness while marriage is a responsibility. But then it is possible to be devotedly mad and responsible at the same time, yes it is. And so this is how we should begin to see marriage: as it is, for what it is! Marriage needs to cea...

C. JoyBell C.

I wander cowboy sidewalks of wood, wearing a too-small hat, filled with remorse for the many lives I failed to lead.

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

Failed efforts are there for you to examine and learn from.

The Clutter Breakthrough: Your Five-Step Solution to Freedom from Clutter Forever

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

Cold Mountain

In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.

Canada

It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!

Capitola's Peril

The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.

Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

When you have done your best and still failed, use Cosmic Ordering.

Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.

Doctor No

Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

You haven't failed until you stop trying.

The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Epic Fail

Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you when you fail

Flip That Haunted House

...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul...

A Familiar Rain