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As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.
I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.
There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.
Every failing organisation has the same stories, people find it very hard to learn from the most successful organisations and people.
Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the good and brave.
One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.
We're living in a world where international governance is failing to overcome borders, but technology is succeeding in removing them.
I believe there is nothing we endure in life that you can't recover from. Failure is not fatal. Everyone has the capacity to fail up.
We have a failing Medicaid system, and you know who that's going to hurt in the end are the most vulnerable in people in our society.
We need to make sure pre-existing conditions are taken care of, but propping up Obamacare, a failing system, is not the way to do it.
I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.
Hillary Clinton has an entire media empire that constantly demonizes Donald Trump, fails to point out several signs of illness by her.
It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.
Life insurance companies are failing to pay out death benefits when they know the person is dead, and they're claiming they don't know.
I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.
When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.
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.
To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His creatures and make Him no God at all.
Give yourself ten years of failing with a smile on your face. If, after ten years, you still have the passion, you're heading to success!
Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.
If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.
I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.
While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.
While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.
You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.
I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.
I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.
Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.
After I won Miss India, I realised I do not like failing. I just like being the best. I hate being a loser. So I just have to keep winning.
Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.
Our criminal justice system is failing all of us. It is not keeping us safe. It is contributing to a vicious cycle of crime and punishment.
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.
Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.
I try to keep it really real on my social media, whether it's me training or working out, whether it's me practicing or failing at something.
We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.
As for His failing you, never dream of it -- hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.
Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers.
I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
Are you wrestling faster than the audience can process? The answer to that question is often times yes. If that is true, then you are failing.