Failing Quotes · Page 71

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

— Bruno Heller

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated.

— Brené Brown

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering…

— Olive Schreiner

Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.

— Brian Tracy

While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature…

— George Saunders

Sometimes your best just isnt good enough, but thats okay because they should have know it never would be

— Levita BRAHZ

I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much…

— Michelle Mone

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the…

— Louis de Bernieres

Cabel smiles and hangs up. "Guess what." What," Janie says. We can go out on our first date." Woo hoo!" And guess…

— Lisa McMann

He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we…

— Emily Giffin

Life is like a mirror; we get the best results when we smile. So talk about your blessings more than you talk…

— Nate

Whenever I'm faced with an issue, I deal with it squarely, even if I was going to fail, I try to learn…

— Femi Kuti

Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role…

— James Patterson

Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to…

— Walter J. Phillips

We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping…

— Carl Honore

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such…

— George Orwell

To turn an abstract goal into an attainable reality requires determination, tenacity and most of all a realistic action plan. Failing to…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to…

— Dave Eggers

When I'm teaching, I tell the story of this painting for two reasons. First of all, if you want a good solid…

— Milford Zornes

Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to…

— Ellen Hopkins

I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the…

— Tom Brokaw

“This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its…

— Wendell Berry

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate…

— Oscar Wilde

I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.

— Wanda Sykes

The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

— Susan Sontag

If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue!

— Gavin McInnes

“If the institution of marriage really is failing, maybe it’s because it is no longer the only—or even the best—model for how…

— Mandy Len Catron

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

— C. S. Lewis

Marriages struggle because we've set our marriages up to fail by thinking that this person is going to complete me when they…

— Mark Hall

Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied,…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was…

— Sara Zarr

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

— Michael Eisner

The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that…

— RuPaul

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is…

— Susan Sontag

I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly…

— Donald Miller

In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

At 13, I was fearless. I looked at everything so positive. When you're older and been through it all, you know how…

— Michelle Kwan

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

— Wilkie Collins