Failing Quotes · Page 31

Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

— Christopher Bollen

“Think doubt and fail, think victory and succeed”

— Anonymous

“Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.”

— Agatha Christie

Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.

— Johnny Cash

When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

— Corrie Ten Boom

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

— Jeff Bezos

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.

— Mary Pipher

Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.

— Joseph Addison

Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but…

— Brady Corbet

Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it's so easy to stop doing the very things that brought…

— Robin Sharma

I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.

— Dean Alfange

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the…

— Edward Snowden

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

— Gail Sheehy

There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail... only learn, grow and become better than you've ever been before.

— Hal Elrod

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

— John Malkovich

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the…

— Steven Brust

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished…

— Anne Sullivan

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in…

— Laurence Sterne

It is true that the faith, which I am enabled to exercise, is altogether God's own gift; it is true that He…

— George Muller

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent…

— John Dalton

I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece…

— Patrick Rothfuss

All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter…

— Luis Barragan

Once or twice a week I would set my alarm for six A.M. so I could get up and plug in Hot…

— Tina Fey

In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the…

— Brigid Brophy

Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving.…

— Maria Popova

I have no illusions about my filmmaking work but I must add I have no illusions about anybody else's either. I am…

— Terence Davies

We show our adoration by going to visit Christ in the tabernacle or exposed in the monstrance. Would it not indeed be…

— Columba Marmion

In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be…

— Steve Jobs

Sometimes you look at me and it's like all the bullshit gets stripped off and I'm left with what's underneath and I…

— Melina Marchetta

Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical…

— Saint Augustine

God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.

— Jerry Bridges

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

— Bob Balaban

When the effort fails, is it worth the cost?

— Maria V. Snyder

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

— Anonymous

“Risky is not the same as crazy. Failing is not the same as being worthless.”

— Alyson Hagy

Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.

— Thomas A. Edison

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

— Benjamin Franklin

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

— Johnny Cash