628 Quotes About Failing


  • Author Terry McMillan
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    Now, I've been known to be attractive on special occasions, and I do my best to project as much beauty as I can muster from deep inside, though I often fail.

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  • Author Thomas Merton
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    Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.

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  • Author Wynton Marsalis
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    We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems start to fail, it's only a cultural understanding that allows you to reconstruct them and to get back to who you are. For some reason, it hasn't dawned on us yet.

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  • Author Anais Nin
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    Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

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  • Author John Newton
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    Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide.

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