Failing Quote by Earl Felton

Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul…

— L. Neil Smith

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

— Margaret Mead

Apologies are not pass/fail.

— Randy Pausch

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

— Stephen Ambrose

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

— Plato

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

— Vinod Khosla

I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.

— William Powell

You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.…

— Price Pritchett

We can't afford any president to fail.

— Glenn Beck

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves…

— Edvard Munch

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Michelle Mone