Best failing & passion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.”

Source: My Discovery of America

“Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Facts Passion Situation Know How Knowing Failing Judging Discipline Prejudice Know Yourself Adjustment

Author:Bernard Baruch

“Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.”

Want Giving Helping Artist Passion Failing Giving Up Rejection

Book:Messages of Effusion: Challenging Answers for Perplexing Career Situations Artists Encounter

Source: Messages of Effusion: Challenging Answers for Perplexing Career Situations Artists Encounter

“The prosecution [of impeachments], will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust, and they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”

“In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine... when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying.”

World Giving Trying Children Age School Passion Secret Failing Childhood Giving Up Eight Drawing Nine Symbols Realistic Instruction Realism Symbolic Early Childhood

Author:Betty Edwards

“Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.”

Passion Justice Failing Betray Lacking

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“My number one rule in business, and in life, is to enjoy what you do. Running a business involves long hours and hard decisions; if you don't have the passion to keep you going, your business will more than likely fail. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it.”

Ifs Long Hard Running Life Is Passion Enjoy Hours Decision Numbers Failing Long Hours Hard Decision Running A Business

Author:Richard Branson

“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”

Has Beens Stills Reason Character Passion Failing Citizens Assembly Athenians

Book:The Federalist

Source: The Federalist

“To have something which one particularly wants to do is more important than anything else. It is even more important than succeeding in that thing you want to do. In fact it does not matter if you fail, but it does matter that you do or do not want to do something.”

Ifs Want Doe Important Matter Facts Passion Failing Succeed

Author:Glenda Jackson

“I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.”

Want Mean Sometimes Play Lying Passion Failing Risk Safe My Passion

Author:Hilary Swank

“There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.”

Firsts Suffering Passion Break Failing Periods Resources Wounds Cures Mortals Iron Fatigue Arches Obstinacy

Author:Samuel Johnson

“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

“If you watch Rafael Nadal play tennis, you can only respond with amazement and great admiration. He is an incredible athlete with so much discipline, so much concentration and someone who likes to put a lot of passion into every point. Words fail to come out of me to describe his game appropriately. I've rarely seen anyone who approaches a ball with so much attention. With such passion and joy that it makes great fun to watch him. With him, you can associate everything that makes tennis so beautiful.”

Ifs Play Beautiful Joy Passion Games Fun Attention Watches Failing Discipline Approach Balls Incredibles Athlete Likes Tennis Concentration Admiration Associates Amazement Nadal

Author:Steffi Graf

“It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade. There is no shame in failure - all makers fail. But it's hard to respect someone who never tries, even once, to do something good that's always on their mind. If you're worried about how good your idea is, you're worrying about the wrong thing.”

Ifs Trying Mind Ideas Hard Lasts Passion Effort Worry Failing Shame Worried Makers Fades Wrong Things Respect Someone

Author:Scott Berkun

“I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted.”

Way Heart Made Important Sometimes Passion Voice Mistake Path Failing My Heart Consequence Appreciate Chosen Plenty I've Learned Trusted Heed My Mistakes

Author:Steve Goodier

“And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.”

Source: Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Illustrated By Arthur Rackham

“It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all know some who claim that it is so. In my judgement, it is thoughtless folly. For it ignores the realities of human faith and of passion and of belief; forces ultimately more powerful than all the calculations of our economists or of our generals. Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.”

“Belief fuels passion, and passion rarely fails.”

Passion Belief Failing Fuel

Book:Companies Don't Succeed . . . People Do!: The Art of Recognition

Source: Companies Don't Succeed . . . People Do!: The Art of Recognition

“The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as important as principles. Without principles, the language will fail.”

People Important Book Passion Winning Language Principles Failing Perfection Persistence Persuasion Adjectives Prioritization

Author:Frank Luntz

“Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that showed up before they were in public life? And have they held onto that passion throughout their life, regardless of whether they were in office or not, succeeding or failing. Hillary Clinton has that passion, from a time as a kid in a methodist youth group in the suburbs of Chicago, she has been focused on serving others with a special focus on empowering families and kids.”

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