Failing Quotes · Page 64

Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along…

— Henry Ward Beecher

When you're not afraid to fail, you'll most certainly have the confidence to succeed.

— Ralph Marston

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate…

— Boris Vian

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

— Colin Powell

Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

— Henry David Thoreau

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

— David Deutsch

We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid…

— Tony Robbins

“The word "frustration" is defined as the unfortunate tendency of lessening one's destiny. Rise up and take all frustrations away! Stop squeezing…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the…

— Gerry Spence

I think that’s the only way you can ever be truly successful in this world. You have to acknowledge that it is…

— Willie Robertson

If [Donald ] Trump goes after - if Trump fails, frankly, to stand up right now for the Muslim community - right…

— Van Jones

If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law…

— Max Heindel

Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of…

— Fulton J. Sheen

It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing…

— Isabel Allende

When I was growing up, my dad would encourage my brother and I to fail. We would be sitting at the dinner…

— Sara Blakely

All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional…

— Walter Bagehot

I add my personal witness: Our missionaries are not salesmen with wares to peddle; rather, they are servants of the Most High…

— Thomas S. Monson

One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that…

— Matt Mullenweg

We impose our modern worldview on the Bible to make it conform to our intellectual happy place. But we deceive ourselves into…

— Michael S. Heiser

The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to indoctrinate them with facts, which they are supposed to…

— Grace Lee Boggs

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but…

— Dylan Moran

“Persistence is showing up even when you don't feel like it, failing and rising again, learning, adjusting, and pushing forward.”

— Olawale Daniel

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame…

— Jeff Olson

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long…

— Orison Swett Marden

Don't let your hopes or fears come between you and Jesus; follow hard after Him. He will never fail you.

— Charles Spurgeon

We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.

— Tony Campolo

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or…

— Tahir Shah

I don't care whether I succeed or whether I fail as long as I am trying. I hope that I succeed.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk.

— John Assaraf

Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

— Anonymous

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails,…

— Neil Bogart

The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we…

— Joseph J. Romm

When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been…

— Milton Friedman

The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to…

— Burt Reynolds

I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time.

— Kathleen Hanna

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of…

— Bertrand Russell