Failing Quotes
If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.
One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.
It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.
There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail
The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .
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.
I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.
No amount of advertising can repair the damage done by failing to properly address a customer's concern.
Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.
Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.
To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.
I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.
Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.
We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.
If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.
I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.
As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.
If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.
Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
