Best ability & failing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.”

Way Firsts May Two Character Seems Form Ability Failing Greatness Succeed Importance Trials Spite Willingness Flawed Starting Over Measurement Two Ways Ability To Succeed

Author:Guy Finley

“We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.”

Needs Sometimes Motivational Lines Ability Failing Talent Lays Scared Never Quit Deep Down

Author:Chrissie Wellington

“I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.”

Long Differences Ability Failing Shapes Great Power Life Span Ability To Change

Author:Roger Zelazny

“The Bush Administration believes the Kyoto protocol could damage our collective prosperity, and in so doing, actually put our long-term environmental health at risk. Fundamentally, we believe that the protocol both will fail to significantly reduce the long-term risks posed by climate change and, in the short run, will seriously impede our ability to meet our energy needs and economic growth.”

“Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.”

Want Book Ability Failing Development Productions Absence Thorough

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the desert on a rock by yourself. You have to see where you fail at it. And that confrontation with your own ability - "I was again not able to love" - those are the teachable moments.”

Knows Self Moments Able School Ability Know How Failing Rocks Sitting Desert Self Knowledge Confrontation Teachable Sitting Alone Teachable Moments

Author:Richard Rohr

“The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.”

“I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.”

Ifs Trying Enough Might Passion Parent Ability Failing Let Me Trusted My Passion Had Enough

Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

“The ability to make a decision is another characteristic of a winner in money matters. I have found over and over again that those who succeed in making large sums of money reach decisions very promptly and change them, if at all, very slowly. I have also found that people who fail to make money reach decisions very slowly, if at all, and change them frequently and quickly.”

People Ifs Matter Found Ability Decision Failing Succeed Making Money Winner Characteristics Money Matters

Book:Money Dynamics for the 1990s

Source: Money Dynamics for the 1990s

“We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.”

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.”

People Ifs Has Beens Important Might Asks Winning Given Ability Secret Fire Failing Talent Football Important Things Nfl Athletic Secret To Success Will To Win Fire Inside Athletic Ability

Book:Comeback Kid

Source: Comeback Kid

“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.”

Ability Failing Duty Citizens Economics Casts Civics Ballots Civic Duty

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.”

Source: Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret

“F-A-I-L-I-N-G [is] Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth. So you don't actually fail, you find a better way to do whatever you're doing, and that's your ability, the truth of your core from past life experiences to where you are now in this life. It gives you the ability to be in your truth, without anything holding you down in a box that will never open.”

Way Giving Important Past Growth Ability Failing Needed Lessons Findings Boxes Core This Life Where You Are Life Experience Better Ways Inviting Past Life Important Lessons

Author:Gary Busey

“The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.”

Needs Ideas Moving Next Ability Failing Adventure Skills Sells Entrepreneur Persistent Next Adventure

Author:James Altucher

“I think democracy fails under a variety of conditions and one of the conditions occurs when people don't have the ability to get the kind of information they need to make up their mind. Ideologically, I don't care much for FOX News. But the truth is that, as long as there are countervailing points of view available on the spectrum, it doesn't matter.”

“I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?”

Order Goal Growth Ability Growing Failing Achieve Achieving Your Goals

Author:James C. Collins

“Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.”

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