Failing Quotes

You think education is something to be done when all else fails?

I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.

I believe there is nothing we endure in life that you can't recover from. Failure is not fatal. Everyone has the capacity to fail up.

We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate.

Now, I've been known to be attractive on special occasions, and I do my best to project as much beauty as I can muster from deep inside, though I often fail.

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.

The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.

The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.

The difference between those who succeed and those who fail isn't what they have'it's what they choose to see and do with their resources and their expertise of life.

I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

If you work hard, good things will happen. I will never be in a situation where if I fail I can look back and say, 'If I'd only worked harder.'

When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.

Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for?

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

From now onwards, whenever you fail -- just congratulate yourself.

Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. I hope his kidneys fail.

You cannot fail, you can only produce results.

Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results.

If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.

We fail our children if we say, 'Don't do as I do, but do as I say'.

Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.

Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.

One of the most deadly causes of destruction of divine destinies is when a leader is failing, but he or she does not know it. Ignorance about your role is a death plot against people's successes.

Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, ‘on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?’ Extremely difficult.

If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure.

The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.

Millions of successful people on earth were once big time failures who tried few times again.

Failure does not connote that you achieved nothing. It denotes that you are on an adventure towards finding what will eventually advance you to the realization of your goals.

That failure serves a purpose!

To fail is to not try at all.

We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall.

Modesty is fear.

To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place.

An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail, but he does not accept to fail before he actually fails, and when he fails he learns from his errors and moves on.

If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations.

If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.

I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment.