Failing Quotes · Page 51

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

— Jean Cocteau

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

— Henry Ford

You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.

— Billy Mills

You need the confidence to fail in order to take risks in your work

— Jessica Walsh

God's love never quits or fails or walks away.

— Jennifer Rothschild

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

— Seneca the Younger

The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary.

— Jamie Dimon

“The heavy soul will not pass though the body is failing.”

— J.R. Ward

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

— Bruce Lee

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get…

— Amity Shlaes

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

— Julian Baggini

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

— George Saunders

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with…

— Samuel Barnett

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes…

— Noam Chomsky

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.

— Paul Tough

I used to think that my business mirrored my climbing - if I wasn't failing at something, I just wasn't trying anything…

— Jeff Lowe

We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators…

— Robert Winston

Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which…

— Francis Ouimet

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that…

— Philip Zimbardo

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s…

— Walker Percy

Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion…

— Michael Ruse

...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not…

— John Cassian

There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy.…

— Joan Chen

My mother, she's the one who's gifted with language. She can speak Japanese, of course, Tagalog, which is a Filipino dialect, Spanish…

— Tamlyn Tomita

Talk to strangers when the family fails and friends lead you astray when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out…

— Saul Williams

Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and…

— Anonymous

The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy!…

— Ann Coulter

Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of Germanism, in so far as this is grounded in its genesis…

— Adolf Hitler

This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the…

— Thor Heyerdahl

There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking…

— Michael Josephson

Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This…

— Alexis Ohanian

What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.

— Daniel Quinn

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

— Plutarch

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

— Rob Sheffield

“Sometimes, the lessons that are learned by accident, or in the process of failing, are the most lasting.”

— Mike Klepper

We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.

— Dion Fortune

I think that the only way that you're going to succeed anywhere is to fail, as crazy as that sounds. It's the…

— Omar Benson Miller

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

— Walt Whitman