Failing Quotes

What we've inherited from our ancestors has never existed to this extent before. And if we fail to preserve it, it will never, ever exist again. So we cannot fail.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

Imagine if you could never fail.

Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.

Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy

Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable.

If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.

Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and confidence are a natural result of proper preparation.

We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

Love may fail, but #‎ courtesy will prevail.

It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.

Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.

The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.

Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

Passing out while you try to kill yourself is like failing at failing.

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me.

Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.

If you're going to fail...FAIL FORWARD

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

The interesting thing about procrastination is that is has more to do with what we fail to do than with what we do.

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

Do what you wanna do. Really follow your dreams. Fail as many times as you can because youll only get better.

The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

You will fail and I’ll dance on your grave. (Apollymi)

If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words.

A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.

I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.

Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.

When all else fails, go for the ego.

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

When all else fails, complicate matters

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.