Failing Quotes

Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.

The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do.

If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue!

Failure plus failure plus failure equals success. You only fail when you quit.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you’ve got more energy just from the music. And, I’ve never seen it fail. It’s good for ya; real good for ya.

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

Some are born to fail. Others have it thrust upon them.

The only time we fail is when we stop trying.

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

Constantly seek difficulties. You shouldn't be afraid to fail; rather you should fail continually, so that you can win in the end. Without difficulties, we cannot grow.

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.

Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.

forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail

90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

Never think of the consequences of failing for you will always think of a negative result. Think only positive thoughts and your mind will gravitate towards those thoughts!

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.

I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.

I am gonna try again and again, because the moment I give up, is the moment I fail.

Indecision is actually the individual’s decision to fail.

Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.

You do not fail in life, you only produce results, and you have the right to learn and grow from any results that you produce.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.