Failing Quotes
I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.
I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.
It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.
It's a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to fail. We can only win when we proceed from wholeness.
I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.
I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.
Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.
She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.
I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.
In his wolf-skin he was as strong as any of them, but he was a gentle person in many ways. He'd feel so bad about failing he'd probably step aside for someone else without a fight.
I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.
I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.
Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.
You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.
America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.
The same feeling you get from succeeding is the same feeling I get from failing, now imagine what happens when I win.
It's impossible to give it all you got and fail unless you fail to give it all you got to do the impossible.
A lot of people are afraid to succeed and don't want to fail but if you don't attempt, aren't you already failing in the same spot?
Without your right to have money that holds it's value, all else just fails because you don't have any real money.
Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.
A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.
My basic rule is, if it could possibly come from the end user, it's not a run-time crash. But if it is my code to my code, I crash it as hard as possible—fail as early as possible.
When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated.
