Home / Topics / Failing Quotes

Failing Quotes

Browse 5413 quotes about Failing.

Failing Quotes

“O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!”

Littles Failing Pure Conscience Wounds Thee Faithful

Author:Dante Alighieri

“Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.”

Pleasure Failing Blood Cat Victim Wounds Maids Rivalry Claws Spinsters Old Maids

Author:Honore de Balzac

“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

“Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you might find yourself in some serious trouble.”

Ifs Might Guy Failing Trouble Serious Wounds Finding Yourself Occupation Collaboration Bad Guys

Author:Niall Ferguson

“There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.”

Years Wells Sometimes Born Pleasure Lord Failing Masters Advantage Lays Satisfaction Burden Wounds Charm Pens Rejoice Far Away Lighters

Author:Petrarch

“Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community.”

Needs Humans Heart Community Healing Failing Tradition Wounds Passing Passings Storytelling Being Human Strengthening Basic Needs Confessing

Book:A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

Source: A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life