Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:My son first wanted to go to Stanford, which I thought was O.K. The weather is pretty good, and it's a fairly short drive to the beach. But it wouldn't be as good as let's say, Pepperdine, which is in Malibu. And he said, 'Dad, what about the education?' I said, 'Clearly, I failed as a parent.'[Larry Ellison] Quote:Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.[Bill Cosby] Quote:A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.[Herbert Samuel] Quote:Males have a lot of trouble not looking at breasts. What is worse, males cannot look at breasts and think at the same time. In fact, scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. This was proved in a famous 1978 laboratory experiment wherein a team of leading male psychological researchers at Yale deliberately looked at photographs of breasts every day for two years, at the end of which they concluded that they had failed to take any notes.[Dave Barry] Quote:A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.[Christopher Morley] Quote:To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.[Dave Barry] Quote:There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.[Laurence Peter] Quote:By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.[Colin Powell] Quote:There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.[Colin Powell] Quote:In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.[Bill Cosby] Quote:My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote: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 better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.[Thomas Edison] Quote:It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I would rather be a failure doing something I love than be a sucess doing something I hate.[George Burns] Quote:I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.[George Burns] Quote:The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Everything done in weakness fails. Moral: Do nothing.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.[Roger Babson] Quote:I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.[Tom Hopkins] Quote:If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.[Thomas Wolfe] Quote:I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.[Michael Jordan] Quote:A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:When ideas fail, words come in very handy.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.[Robert Kennedy] Quote:Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.[Earl Wilson] Quote:The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures.[Earl Warren] Quote:What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. [Cato the Elder] Quote:For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. [A. Whitney Brown] Quote:LEONARD: I've failed, Chris. I can't locate the white collective unconscious.<br>CHRIS: I wouldn't feel too bad about that. You know, western culture hasn't really carried the baton on folklore and mythology. The rise of Christianity put the kibosh on it--the gospel hits the number one best-seller list and everything else gets remaindered. [Barbara Hall] Quote:I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. [Bill Cosby] Quote:The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. [Ayn Rand] Quote:Act as if it were impossible to fail. [Gore Vidal] Quote:If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. [John Kenneth Galbraith] Quote:It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. [Aristotle] Quote:It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. [Aristotle] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Men are born to succeed, not fail. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. [Beverly Sills] Quote:If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. [Dan Quayle] Quote:I failed to make the chess team because of my height. [Woody Allen] Quote:My reputation grows with every failure. [George Bernard Shaw] Definitions of: failDefinition: To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.Definition: To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of. Definition: To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink. Definition: To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails. Definition: To perish; to die; -- used of a person. Definition: To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation. Definition: To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated. Definition: To err in judgment; to be mistaken. Definition: To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent; as, many credit unions failed in the late 1980's. Definition: Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail. Definition: Death; decease. |
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