Failing Quotes

It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.

I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all.

Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap.

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

Facebook does social really well, but continues to fail at community.

The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.

Too many hearts have been broken, failing to trust what they feel.

What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.

Even if the effort is bound to fail you still commit completely. It is the commitment that counts for something.

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

You figure out, what is the crucial issue facing the country right now? And for Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

So rage, proud Power: fail again! And see my blood teach Death to die!

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

Arm chair warriors often fail.

Business cannot succeed in a world that is failing.

If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.

Wacko Glenn Beck is a sad answer to the Sarah Palin endorsement that [Ted] Cruz so desperately wanted. Glenn is a failing, crying, lost soul.

Obamacare if failing, we're going to repeal it and we're going to replace it.

Let Obamacare fail. It will be a lot easier, and I think we're probably in that position where we'll just let Obamacare fail.

No paper is more corrupt than the failing New York Times. The good news is it is failing, it won't be around too much longer.

Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone.

Failure is not an option on this one.

Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.

Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.

What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell.