Failing Quotes
Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again.
Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.
If we don't acknowledge and accept where we are failing, then we'll never do the work that it takes to make it right for US.
I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards.
Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.
Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.
Being a warrior doesn’t mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.
Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.
We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.
By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.
The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.
I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.
Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.
The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.
The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
No amount of advertising can repair the damage done by failing to properly address a customer's concern.
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.