Failing Quotes

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up.

I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.

You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.

Everything that fails brings you closer to what works.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

Trying is failing with honor

I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.

you plan to fail if you fail to plan

To fail at all is to fail utterly.

The term "too big to fail" must be excised from our vocabulary.

if I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.

Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.

I'm constantly failing, but not upset about it. I think there's a great deal to learn from that.

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

Of course he wouldn't hesitate before trying something that had never been done before. He was Vlad Tepesh. How could he fail?

Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.

I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.

God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

The bottom line is, you can't be afraid to fail.

The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.

Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?

To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

How can I be my best if I never fail, and how can I ever find peace if I never yell.

I beat myself up in the studio because I know that a lot of people are expecting me to fail.

If you fail to plan, you pretty much plan to fail.

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot.

What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.

For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.

Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!

Many pastors fail to see God's vision fulfilled because they never have a strategy for fulfilling that vision.

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.