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the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Failure'

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We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E. Lee, American Soldier (1807-1870)
By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
Sheila Jackson Lee, American Politician (1950-  )
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
Jack Lemmon, American Actor (1925-2001)
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
Sean Lennon, American Musician (1975-  )
We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.
Shane Leslie, Irish Diplomat (1885-1971)
A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.
Elmer G. Letterman, -
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
Karl Liebknecht, German Politician (1871-1919)
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English Theologian (1828-1889)
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English Theologian (1828-1889)
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English Theologian (1828-1889)
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln, American President (1809-1865)
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet (1807-1882)
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
Audre Lorde, American Poet (1934-  )
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell, American Poet (1819-1891)
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell, American Poet (1819-1891)
I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
Alice Foote MacDougall, -
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer (1860-1911)
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X, American Activist (1925-1965)
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
Michael Malone, American Author
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux, French Author (1901-1976)
 
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