Failing Quotes

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

Risk is the willingness to fail.

The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything.

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time.

The multipurpose device will always fail.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

You will fail many times but in failing you'll learn and in learning you'll find your way. Remember, there are no mistakes in life but only lessons, and lessons will keep on repeating until learned

Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.

A man is more than his failings.

Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

The reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times.

Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it's so easy to stop doing the very things that brought you to the top.

Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails.

Most of the reason we don’t do things is because we’re afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.

When your art fails, make better art.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

My books are friends that never fail me.

Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.

Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.

If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.

His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.

When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.

Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

The love of wine is a good man's failing.

Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.

The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.

The only way to fail is to quit.

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

You will fail. At some point. More than once. Guaranteed. Proceed anyway.

Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.