Failing Quotes

My biggest adjustment has been learning not to be afraid to fail.

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.

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

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.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

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.

If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail.

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.

Business cannot prosper in societies that fail.

If you don’t almost fail, then it wasn’t hard enough

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

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.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

The only way you can fail is if you stop praying.

I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.

You'll fail at a 100% of the goals you don't set.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

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.

There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail

We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

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. . . .

I exercise every morning without fail. One eyelid goes up and the other follows.

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 my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

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.

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.

Being a warrior doesn’t mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.

The shame in life is not to fail to reach your dream, but to fail to have a dream to reach.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

You cannot fail at meditation.

The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.

I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.