Failing Quotes

How to fail: Try too hard.

It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.

Fail big if you have to, but go down trying.

Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing to provide good value for money.

Maximum damage. It was the beginning of the end. Either we would fail or not. At least we could say we tried.

When the effort fails, is it worth the cost?

There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.

Just because you've failed once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything.

My wife is so funny and talented and never lets anybody fail next to her.

I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.

Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.

Hate will keep you alive where love fails

[Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.

Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

You never really fail until you stop wanting.

When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.

I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.

Me fail English? That's unpossible.

Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

And generally the shows I'm in fail really big.

The up side of down: why failing well is the key to success.

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!

You shouldn't fear failure. You should fear succeeding at the wrong thing. I may fail, but I'm failing at the right thing.

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself.

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

You can't be afraid to fail because that's when you learn.

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

We cannot fail in following nature.

When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.

The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways

If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

Blind is not the situation when people cannot see others but when people fail to feel or sense the existence of others

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

If you bet on individuals, instead of the people, you are going to fail.

Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the U.S. regularly fails to recognize and reflect this.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

If you fail to plan,you can plan to fail.

The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.

If you fail to go within, you will go without.

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.