Failing Quotes · Page 28

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

— Biz Stone

If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail.

— Kate Winslet

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.

— Oswald Chambers

This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

— Mark Wahlberg

If you aren't failing, you aren't trying.

— Woody Allen

I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial.

— Paul Hawken

The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail

— Walt Whitman

Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.

— Michael J. Schmoker

If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.

— John Doerr

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

— Earl Weaver

Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer…

— James Beard

Certainly, with my giant overinflated ego, playing in the CFL would have been like failing.

— Ryan Leaf

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— John Engler

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.

— Andrew Forrest

We do wrong willfully when we fail to think hard about whether what we're doing is right.

— Julian Baggini

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much;…

— Patrick J. Kennedy

If a solution fails to appear ... and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while.…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's…

— James McBride

In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure…

— Leo Tolstoy

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a…

— Dorianne Laux

There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See…

— Tom Peters

We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient…

— Anne Applebaum

Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection…

— Graham Greene

When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the…

— A. P. Herbert

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've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded…

— Munir Butt

We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design…

— Arthur Compton

Successful people fail their way to the top!

— Jeff Olson

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

— Seneca the Younger

If you fail, learn, and move on, you're growing.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

— Harold Bloom

Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.

— David Gemmell

The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure.

— Thomas Watson

Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.

— Robert Heller

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

— Mahatma Gandhi