Failing Quotes

Me fail English? That's unpossible.

By all means never fail to get all the sunshine and fresh air you can.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap.

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

The Heart that is not in love will fail the test.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder.

A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It's just a learning experience. It's an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life... Instead do again and make a journey of your life.

Thou fail to perceive mineself!

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong for us, we fall prey to putting the outside world’s needs before our own. We then disconnect from the enormity of our power and our ability to create what we want.

Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

Everything that fails brings you closer to what works.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how.

On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them. To disguise that, there's all this harsh, poop-centric, external swagger, full of nastiness. I'm a cloaking device.

Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.

Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end.

If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is no.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

Bodybuilding is not just a sport; it's a way of life. If every aspect of your life is not focused on making the sacrifices necessary to build your best physique, you will ultimately fail and never reach your full potential.

Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

There's no easy way around it, no matter how talented you are ... your talent is going to fail you if you're not skilled. If you don't study, if you don't work really hard and dedicate yourself to being better every single day, you 'll never be able to communicate with people your artistry the way that you want!

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.