Failing Quotes · Page 88

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

— Craig Groeschel

“If art's a seismographic project, when that project’s met with miscomprehension, failure must become the subject too.”

— Chris Kraus

The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.

— Thomas S. Monson

Maximum damage. It was the beginning of the end. Either we would fail or not. At least we could say we tried.

— Maria V. Snyder

If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is…

— Yasser Arafat

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

— Paul Theroux

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

— Sophocles

There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger…

— Mark Twain

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They…

— Charles Bukowski

There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the…

— Yann Martel

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently…

— Joshua Reynolds

If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have…

— Debbie Reynolds

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving…

— Marcel Proust

I've had many failures in terms of technological... business... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this…

— Henry Fielding

That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of…

— Barack Obama

The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown…

— Anonymous

Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive…

— L. Neil Smith

All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters,…

— Ludwig von Mises

Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme…

— Wallace Stegner

“The gospel of submission, commitment, decision, and victorious living is not good news about what God has achieved but a demand to…

— Anonymous

But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The full implications of feminism will evolve over time, as we organize, experiment, think, analyze, and revise our ideas and strategies in…

— Charlotte Bunch

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held…

— Abu Bakar Bashir

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

— Desmond Tutu

We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another…

— Michael Arrington

Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows…

— Allan Pease

It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.

— Johan Cruijff

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

— Tom Duff

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

— Robert Duncan

You are just so helpful, Andrei. (Esperetta) I try to be, Princess. (Andrei) And you fail with such panache. (Esperetta)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

That is ridiculous," she said. The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.

— Megan Whalen Turner

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a…

— Horace

No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have…

— Baron Renwick of Clifton Robin Renwick

“I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever.”

— John Irving

If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot…

— Anh Do

It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying…

— Steven Price

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not…

— John Quincy Adams