Failing Quotes

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again.

A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.

To think of failure is to fail.

Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big.

Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.

Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.

Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.

The fearful are the failing.

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

Act as though it is impossible to fail.

If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.

I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.

I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk.

We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.

Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.

The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Learn how to fail intelligently.

It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love.

How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.