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Morality which depends upon the helplessness
of a man or woman has not much to recommend it.
Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is hardly possible to build anything,
if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Lech Walesa
If we fail to plan, we merely bob helplessly -
like a cork on the sea of life.
If we resist whatever life delivers to us,
we create untold misery for ourselves.
If we act with vision and commitment,
and then accept whatever Spirit provides,
we live a life of purpose and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
Those that fail to learn from history
are doomed to repeat it.
- Winston Churchill
Public sentiment is everything.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail.
Without it, nothing can succeed.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals,
that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
You ARE what you do - and what you fail to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
- Robert H. Schuller
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills
The crops were planted, tended, and harvested -
now the ground lies fallow, awaiting the new planting.
Did the year fail? I think not.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice
and when they fail in this purpose
they become the dangerously structured dams
that block the flow of social progress.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Can you achieve your goals?
You can't reach your goal if you haven't
defined your goals.
And you can't succeed if you don't try -
and then pick yourself up
and try again each time you fail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Please know that I am aware of the hazards.
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born
at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin
I believe totally in a Capitalist System,
I only wish that someone would try it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
If you want total security, go to prison.
There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter
if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Anne Frank
Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Anonymous
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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