Fails Quotes

821 quotes by 701 authors

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try… — Anthony Burgess
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. — C.S. Lewis
Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations. — Martin L. Gross
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege… — John J. Sirica
No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately. — James E. Rogers
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. — James Lane Allen
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely. — Frank McCourt
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part… — Edmond H. Fischer
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the… — Vitruvius
I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is… — Tony Greig
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient… — Hans Eysenck
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. — David Antin
More can be learned from what works than from what fails. — Rene Dubos
The Afghan security forces will always have the help of the U.S. American military to ensure that Afghanistan never fails. — Lindsey Graham
The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while… — Ai Weiwei
If another euro country fails, so does Slovakia. Our economy is 80% open and if the citizens of Spain and Portugal have no money to… — Iveta Radicova
If all else fails, birdie the last. — Adam Derek Scott
Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. — George Santayana

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