Failing Quotes

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

I'm really concerned that 'too big to fail' has become 'too big for trial'.

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

When all else fails, dream bigger.

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.

When people call me a role model it puts the fear of god into me, because I feel like I'm destined to fail.

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.

No one fails alone and no one succeeds alone.

Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.

If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to fail, fail, fail. You have to fail and fail miserably many times.

I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.

When all else fails, throw a party!

Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).

The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

Get back up, shake the dust off and keep going. Keep going, because Hollywood is set up to make you fail.

In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

If I'm going to fail, let me fail with something that I care deeply about.

Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature of oneself.

I was very fortunate to have had a mother and father who loved me in spite of my failings.

You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

We can't afford any president to fail.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.

Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 19

That's one way to overcome criticism: tank so hard that failing becomes glorious and meaningless.

[Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at.

Every day I fail at something.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

You just have this freedom when you're younger - this lack of concern to fail or do anything wrong. It comes with an ease that I've found has kind of deteriorated over time.

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.