Best capable & failing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Works of John Locke: The reasonableness of Christianity. A vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, from Mr. Edward's reflections. A second vindication

“If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.”

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Author:Mike Lowell

“Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.”

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Author:John Rosemond

“You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable.”

Ifs Knows Heart Failing Capable

Author:John Wooden

“You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do. Are you going to make mistakes? Of course. But it is not failure if you make the full effort.”

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Author:John Wooden

“If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.”

“The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great skepticism - which foretells a coming change. As soon as skepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.”

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Author:Stefan Molyneux

“The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.”

Source: Fablehaven

“In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence”

Source: Utilitarianism

“A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.”

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.”

Men Stills Age Games Wish White Brain Failing He Man Goodness Capable Balls Difficulty Golf Graves Clock Empires Governing Cuckoos Cuckoo Clocks

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

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