Failing Quotes · Page 20

We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need…

— Martin Seligman

Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.

— Demi Moore

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

— Karen Armstrong

If you're too hung up on improvising 'correctly', you will almost always fail.

— Craig Cackowski

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

— Wislawa Szymborska

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would…

— Joyce Carol Oates

. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence…

— Grenville Kleiser

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

— Mark Twain

If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United…

— Leon Panetta

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

A few years ago I switched to an entirely different kind of New Year's resolution. Instead of vowing to improve, I pledge…

— Mel White

More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.

— Kenichi Ohmae

I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this…

— Tina Fey

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only…

— Paul Valery

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

— Henry David Thoreau

While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature…

— George Saunders

Passing out while you try to kill yourself is like failing at failing.

— Maddox

If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails…

— Anthony H. Cordesman

When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian…

— Tullian Tchividjian

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of…

— Daphne du Maurier

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but…

— James Hillman

Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.

— Patrick Lencioni

It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying…

— John C. Danforth

“Persistence compounds. One more try, one more day, one more effort—that could be your breakthrough. When you feel like giving in -…

— Olawale Daniel

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but,…

— Samuel Johnson