Failing Quotes
I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.
The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.
Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.
Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.
The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.
The recent AP poll that came out last month said that approximately 90% of the American people felt that the two-party system was failing us in the presidential election.
Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.
I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles.
The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
I am very competitive, so when I fail I use what I learned from that mishap to fuel success.
The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.
We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.
It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.
You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail
I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.
To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His creatures and make Him no God at all.
We, of course, need to improve our failing healthcare system, where costs are skyrocketing and 1 in 3 Americans doesn't have the healthcare that they need. Can't afford it, even with their insurance.
I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.
Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.