Best failing & fall Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.”

Hard Hands Eye Certain Fall Forget Behinds Practice Successful Failing Masters Degrees Deny Drawing Painter His Eyes Facility

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.”

May Has Beens Light Fall Failing Missing Danger Needed Highest Wake Up Busy Perceive Unconscious Abiding Presence Of God

Author:Phillips Brooks

“You can't fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change.”

Fall Opportunity Growth Greater Failing Change And Growth

Author:Julie Newmar

“Little kids learn to walk by falling. They fall forward and eventually they start catching themselves. All walking is controlled falling. It’s the same with success. You learn by failing. Success is just controlled failing.”

Littles Kids Fall Walks Failing Walking Controlled Little Kid Catching

Author:Derek Rydall

“Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.”

Form Fall Grace Failing Sacred Ancient Senses Host Defects Adoration Hail Rite Departing

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.”

Source: Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of

“Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion ... but the blessing which rewards the triumph of energy and will.”

Way Character Fall Energy Moral Poverty Failing Objects Circumstances Blessing Rewards Riches Convinced Triumph Misfortunes Suspicion Relieved Puritan

Book:Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

“All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.”

Age Dies Fall Failing Kings Remains Vain Empires Strife

Author:Michael Moorcock

“Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.”

May Happiness Success Fall Results Worry Our Lives Failing Danger Anxiety Capable Ideals Dignity Our Society Modest Conform Pernicious Dignity And Respect

Author:Alain de Botton

“Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.”

Ifs Matter Fall Leader Failing Pride Guarantees Exception Demise Prunes

Author:John C. Maxwell

“My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.”

People World Important Moments Fall Lost Answers Failing Stage Fronts This World Periods Adults Falling In Love Busy Invisible Peers Too Busy Listen To Me Spoken Word Time Periods

Author:Sarah Kay

“If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.”

Ifs Way Young Artist Fall Actors Challenges Too Much Failing Succeed Notion Creator Painter Decent Locked Success And Failure Unhealthy Young Actors Communicators Challenge Yourself

Author:Emma Thompson

“America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.”

World Problem America Dies Fall Sin United States Failing Worst Sick Places In The World Unforgivable Unforgivable Sin

Book:The Rendezvous

Source: The Rendezvous

“Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.”

Feels Mean Different Fall Hurt Failing Resilience Keep Going Numb

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. The murder rate with guns is ten times what it is in other developed nations. And there's nothing inevitable about it. It comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make. And it falls upon us to make it different.”

“Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."”

Fall Results Failing Comfort Expectations Originals Tyranny Resistance Ideology Customs Initiative Unrealistic Expectations

Author:John Daly

“A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.”

Ifs Whole Lasts Fall Failing Chains Links

Author:Chris Pratt

“Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Kind Fall Individual Effort Power Failing Society Collectives Individualism Fulfilled Wholeness Fulfilment

Book:Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation

Source: Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation

“Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.”

Way Ends Fall Grows Steps Growing Up Failing Seeing Fool Fellows Embrace Fortune Strive Witness Height Arrogance Glorious Soil Reaching Leap Honour Weed Ladders Clown

Author:Owen Feltham

“I will never slide, never fall, never fail.”

Fall Failing Slides

Author:Aaron Dontez Yates

“I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.”

Thinking World Trying Wells Children Hard Fall Compassion Teach Failing Hard Work Weak Raises Grateful Ill Life Experience Try Again Forbearance

Author:Dorianne Laux

“I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs.”

Looks Persons Bigs Fall Laughing Failing Stupid Commit Swings Falling Down

Author:Amy Poehler

“Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so that you yourself do not fall into the temptation in which they abide... Do not be angry at anyone and do not hate anyone, neither for their faith, nor for their shameful deeds... Do not foster hatred for the sinner, for we are all guilty... Hate his sins, and pray for him, so that you may be made like unto Christ, who had no dislike for sinners, but prayed for them.”

Inspirational May Made Christian Hate Fall Christ Religious Sin Failing Praying Hatred Angry Deeds Temptation Guilty Sinner Orthodox Dislike Shameful Disdain

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.”

World Values Fall Parent Failing Ought Falling Apart Shifting

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.”

People Looks Sometimes Fall Interesting Failing Painting Draws Ordinary Everyday Everyday Life Interesting Things Ordinary Things Overdrive

Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“Financial institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks-when one fails, they all fall. We have moved from a diversified ecology of small banks, with varied lending policies, to a more homogeneous framework of firms that all resemble one another. True, we now have fewer failures, but when they occur... I shiver at the thought.”

Has Beens Fall Numbers Failing Policy Institutions Moved Financial Firm Fewer Ecology Framework Lending Shiver Swelling Merging Financial Institutions Homogeneous

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I had so many other things I could fall back on as an entrepreneur (with multiple businesses). When I finally was true to myself and what I wanted to do - and acting was it - there was nothing else I could think of. I thought "If I fail, I'm falling hard (because) I don't have anything else to fall back on. Am I going to accept that?"...I never looked back. I never (let myself) put it in my mind to fail.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Hard Wanted Fall Acting Accepting Failing Entrepreneur Multiple Fall Back True To Myself Falling Hard

Author:Drew Waters

“Fail is a verb not a noun, most people think that when they fail, they become a noun and call themselves failures. People have to learn from their mistakes just as children learn to ride bicycles by falling off bicycles. Mistakes can be priceless if we are willing to learn from them because the price to becoming rich is the willingness to make mistakes and learn from them without blaming or justifying”

People Ifs Thinking Children Fall Mistake Rich Failing Willing Becoming Blame Making Mistakes Willingness Bicycle Priceless Verbs Nouns Falling Off Willing To Learn

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments fail us. But one thing in time or eternity does not fail us-the pure love of Christ.”

People Doe Sometimes Government Fall Christ Economy Failing One Thing Share Pure Eternity Pure Love

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony, the adulterer to celebrate adultery, than for someone to preach the right thing if he himself occasionally does the wrong thing. Better to let your failings define you and be happy about it, than to let your ideals define you but then fall short of them, for that opens you up to the charge of hypocrisy.”

Ifs Doe Lying Fall Failing Ideals Hatred Celebrate Champion Right Thing Liberalism Hypocrisy Logical Liars Adultery Wrong Things Gluttony Define You

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.”

Fall Democracy Failing Authority Prepared Confusion Dictator Emergencies

Book:Authority in the crisis

Source: Authority in the crisis

“Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again.”

Fall Failing Wave

Author:Josh Billings

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”

“I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that.”

Thinking Feels Trying Years Important Fall Easy Goal Term Failing Short Term Short Term Goals

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle.”

Looks Fall Practice Failing Risk Willing Succeed Idiot Muscles

Author:John Assaraf

“I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight”

Ifs Fall Lost Failing Seven Eight Get Up

Author:Bodhidharma

“There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement. I have found that to be absolutely true. My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up. I'm not afraid to fall on my face while I attempt new things.”

Has Beens Faces Fall Found Greater Failing Lessons Achievement Tools Stones Not Afraid New Things Stepping Stones

Author:Idara Victor

“If Estonia or any member-state was invaded and Article V was not invoked, NATO will fall apart. If it fails once, the alliance will no longer exist.”

Ifs States Fall Failing Members Articles Falling Apart Alliances Nato Estonia

Author:Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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