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Saturday, June 29th, 2024
the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Failure'

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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
Rick Pitino, American Athlete (1952-  )
We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
Gary Player, South African Athlete (1935-  )
You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
John Poindexter, American Public Servant (1936-  )
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
Sydney Pollack, American Director (1934-2008)
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell, American Statesman (1937-  )
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell, American Statesman (1937-  )
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell, American Statesman (1937-  )
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
Lisa Marie Presley, American Musician (1968-  )
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Alan Price, American Musician (1942-  )
If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.
Dan Quayle, American Vice President (1947-  )
The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
Carroll Quigley, American Writer (1910-1977)
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.
Anna Quindlen, American Journalist (1953-  )
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
Anna Quindlen, American Journalist (1953-  )
How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
Harold Ramis, American Actor (1944-  )
Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.
Michael Ramsey, English Clergyman (1904-1988)
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
Sumner Redstone, American Businesman (1923-  )
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard, French Dramatist (1864-1910)
But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.
Cliff Richard, English Musician (1940-  )
Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.
Tony Richardson, British Director (1928-1991)
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
Elliot Richardson, American Lawyer (1920-1999)
 
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