Fails Quotes

821 quotes by 701 authors

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than… — Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds… — Edward McKendree Bounds
There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off… — Charles Spurgeon
For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this… — Dorothy L. Sayers
A father is a man who fails every day. — Michael Chabon
There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the… — Nancy Kassebaum
Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks.… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved. — Frank Arthur Swinnerton
People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting. — John Masefield
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically… — Malcolm X
In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if… — William Ralph Inge
As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. Weakness with watchfulness will… — Richard Sibbes
The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it is, but the… — Ravi Zacharias
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he… — Douglas MacArthur
When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which… — Carlos Castaneda
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been… — Douglas MacArthur
A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience. — Jesse Ventura
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who Wrote These Fails Quotes

701 authors contributed a total of 821 Fails Quotes, led by these top contributors: