Failure is a word unknown to me.
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH
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With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
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Muhammad Ali JinnahMuhammad Ali Jinnah India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.
Muhammad Ali JinnahMuhammad Ali Jinnah Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.
Muhammad Ali JinnahMuhammad Ali Jinnah If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.
Muhammad Ali JinnahMuhammad Ali Jinnah No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Muhammad Ali JinnahMuhammad Ali Jinnah My message to you all is hope, courage and confidence.
Muhammad Ali JinnahMuhammad Ali Jinnah Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
Muhammad Ali JinnahMuhammad Ali Jinnah Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.
Muhammad Ali JinnahMuhammad Ali Jinnah You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.
Muhammad Ali JinnahMuhammad Ali Jinnah Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics. Religion is merely a matter between man and God.
Muhammad Ali JinnahMuhammad Ali Jinnah My message to you is: build up physical strength not for aggression, not for militarism, but for becoming fighting fit, all your life and all the time in every walk of life of your nation wherever you be and always to be a force for peace, international amity and goodwill.
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I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.
Marianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
Brennan ManningBrennan Manning The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramahansa YoganandaParamahansa Yogananda Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias I’m going to fail to hit the mark I’ve put up before me because it’s not possible to hit it. I want to be the best at what I do so I’ve got to get over myself already because that’s never going to happen. I ain’t ever going to be God.
Tom HardyTom Hardy The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency… God’s sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.
Brennan ManningBrennan Manning In every failure lies the seeds of success.
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