Home / Quotes / Quote by Harley King

Quote by Harley King

“The more I try to be perfect; the more I fail.”

Quote by Harley King

Author

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Harley King. more

You May Also Like

“I wanted so badly to please him and my mom. I was simply incapable. What happens when you live with a tiger that you can't please is that you're always afraid.”

Failure Expectations Parenting

Book:Eat a Peach

Source: Eat a Peach

“You must become a free man so that you have “Sidik Paningal; Java” (lucidity and precision of sight). Later, you achieve the peak of detachment of sight (Ma’rifat), where you see something to the horizon with great clarity. Do not take another step before you are certain that the path you take is the right one. Failure is another matter; what matters is precision.”

Failure Precision Lucidity Ma Rifat

Author:Emha AInun NAdjib

“I always used to think that heaven is a place for people who've spent their whole life being good, but it isn't. God is too merciful and kind to make a decision like that. Heaven is simply a place for people who were genuinely unable to be happy on earth.”

God Happiness Heaven Unhappiness Afterlife

Book:Gaza Blues: Different Stories

Source: Gaza Blues: Different Stories

“The only real failure in life is giving up. On looking back let it stand to our credit in life's balance sheet that at least we tried, and tried hard.”

Book:Farmer's Glory

Source: Farmer's Glory

“To all what we have not tried, we would never wish to try if we knew that we would fail.”

Trying Failure Achievement Success Quotes Successful Living Success Strategies Trying Hard Succes Quotes

Author:Oscar Auliq-Ice

“His early failure had released him from any felt obligation to think along institutional lines and his thoughts were already independent to a degree few people are familiar with. He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time.”

Failure Wake Up Moving On Indoctrination Independent Thought

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“But now I saw with fresh conviction that is was us, all of us, who were failing, and the hallmark of our failure was the way we ate with our heads down, hungrily, quickly, because there was nothing else to do at the table”

Failure Family Drama

Book:A Thousand Acres

Source: A Thousand Acres

“For what is a curse but an unfair theft of strength. (Whatever is attempted in the way of improving your position brings back less than the effort exerted.)”

Failure Curse Snubbed

Book:ANCIENT EVENINGS

Source: ANCIENT EVENINGS

“If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.”

Book:My Best Friend's Girl

Source: My Best Friend's Girl

“For every question, there is an answer. Where everybody fails is by asking the wrong question.”

Failure Question Answer

Author:Richard Diaz