Failing Quotes · Page 55

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

— Elizabeth Goudge

Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.

— John C. Maxwell

Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same…

— James MacArthur

I am very competitive, so when I fail I use what I learned from that mishap to fuel success.

— Tara Lipinski

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

— Margaret Drabble

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.

— Josh Marshall

I never look at failing as an option anyhow. I believe thinking you could fail is already shooting yourself in the foot…

— Ashley Purdy

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see…

— Jamie Oliver

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but…

— Patrick Lencioni

Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent.…

— Edmund Burke

Failing to take people along can render your best investments futile. Often we pay too much attention to building the system and…

— Prakah Iyer

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail,…

— Louisa May Alcott

When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and…

— Lucretius

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When 'important' individuals go away we…

— Oswald Chambers

If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked…

— Emma Thompson

Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth…

— George Akerlof

I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this…

— Roland Barthes

Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy…

— Herbert Spencer

“Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected return. If things don’t go as planned or if you…

— Chetan Bhagat

Then something fails and they're all out again, but DVD revenue is disappearing, you know, it's not disappearing but it's going off…

— Eric Fellner

You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she…

— John Kennedy Toole

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

— Dean Koontz

Do you have any sort of plan?” Jack asked. “Not really.” “Eh, just as well. It’ll be less of a disappointment when…

— Kiersten White

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

— Paula Abdul

“You can't live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously you might as well have not lived at all, in…

— J.K. Rowling

In business, when you fail at something, when something doesn't work, you say okay, we've learned that that's not a path to…

— Michael Bloomberg

Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over…

— John Rosemond

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

— Sarah Dessen

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

— Agatha Christie

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.

— Mariane Pearl

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit…

— Christian Keiber

There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future.…

— Marianne Williamson

“I had all along, without seeming to, without even admitting it, already been trying—and failing—to win him over.”

— André Aciman

There is a glaring FEE in FrEEbie that most of the people, more often than not, fail to see.

— Anuj

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of…

— Malcolm Gladwell

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

— Ira Glass

If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative

— Woody Allen