Failing Quotes · Page 57

Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough. And you need something that really works and helps you actually, not…

— John Travolta

The reason many people fail is not for lack of vision but for lack of resolve and resolve is born out of…

— Robert H. Goddard

I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.

— Tig Notaro

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

— Marc Andreessen

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid…

— Ernest Hemingway

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

— Owen Jones

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

— Hesketh Pearson

You are worried that the religious Right might succeed in forcing their values onto us? I am worried they might fail.

— Daniel Lapin

The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany…

— George Soros

It's easy for me to work with other girls because I'm a tomboy and I don't want the guy, your boyfriend -…

— Michelle Rodriguez

Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the…

— Mohammad Marandi

We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts…

— Daniel Fried

Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to…

— Anonymous

In the past I've tended to overreact. I was sure I'd be a superstar by the time I was twenty-one. Baseball messed…

— Albert Belle

The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never…

— Augustus John

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to…

— Umberto Eco

Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so that you yourself do not fall into…

— Isaac of Nineveh

There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce…

— P. G. Wodehouse

A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Having studied biology really helped me a lot because I quickly understand how biological systems work, and how they fail, and the…

— Wangari Maathai

We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book…

— Anonymous

Great nations which fail to meet their responsibilities are consigned to the dustbin of history. We grew from that small, weak republic…

— Ronald Reagan

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

— Jerry Saltz

We can't be afraid of failing. I think that's the biggest mistake I've seen Democrats make. We're always afraid of failing, so…

— Ruben Gallego

The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss.

— Ray Comfort

Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn…

— Rick Warren

Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I'm constantly failing, but not upset about it. I think there's a great deal to learn from that.

— Jared Leto

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

— Edward Dahlberg

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.

— Sri Chinmoy

... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would…

— Henry B. Eyring

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

— Lee Iacocca

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing…

— Oscar Wilde

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.

— Calvin Coolidge

[Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.

— Mark Shields

There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will…

— Steven Erikson