Failing Quotes · Page 102

In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

— Gail Sheehy

You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.

— Kazu Kibuishi

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

— Anonymous

Life is so simple, really. Think through what people want, watch what others fail to give them, and provide it. Then bill'em.

— Stuart Wilde

The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source.

— Clarence H. Burns

People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort…

— Hjalmar Söderberg

I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I…

— James Frey

We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this…

— Judith Viorst

Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's…

— Sarah Dessen

It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

If I try to figure out what people want and give it to them, it's a failure. If I try to please…

— Gary Louris

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

— Michael Eisner

They'd rather see me fail than succeed, That's why I'm alone on my own with no team. Don't need no green, though…

— Bishop Nehru

I respect people who are willing to deal with everything that comes with being a politician, but I'm not willing to deal…

— John Legend

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

— Judith Perelman Rossner

Apart from the Office [the daily prayer of the Church] which is a daily joy, I do not have the courage to…

— Therese of Lisieux

It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

— Genghis Khan

Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private…

— Steven Rattner

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

— Gary Busey

Do not doubt your abilities. Do not delay your worthy impressions. With God's help, you cannot fail. He will give you the…

— Marvin J. Ashton

You have the Savior of the world on your side. If you seek His help and follow His directions, how can you…

— Gary E. Stevenson

How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are…

— Helen Keller

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

— Scott Pelley

Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

— George Robinson

Risk is the willingness to fail.

— Kathleen Turner

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

— Cliff Martinez

I've got friends who are so good at getting away with things, like going up to the desk to get upgraded on…

— Ruth Wilson

If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you…

— Napoleon Hill

A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls…

— Chuck Palahniuk

People come up with resolutions that don’t reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.

— Kelly McGonigal

If we want to destroy ISIS,if we expect to do this on our own, we will fail but if we do it…

— Jeb Bush

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his…

— Jonathan Edwards

I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I've always loved teaching acting. I think it helps me to kind of get back to basics. It's like a refresher course…

— Alfred Molina

The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.

— Kevin Warsh

I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

— Vince McMahon

When you're filming, you work 19-hour days and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you…

— Kim Cattrall

(Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And…

— Richelle Mead