Best 1227 quotes in «failing quotes» category

...there is so much beauty in the trying, and in the failing, and in the trying again.

The small launch bay was littered with debris. A powerful breeze tore at his black silk shirt as Kilroy made his way across it to the waiting shuttle, evoking a feeling like the fingers of fate were caressing his body. “The Hammer” stepped over the body of one of his fallen crew without a trace of care or concern. The air was rushing past him, like a wind, out into space through the wounds in the side of his ship. Fatigued and desperate, the Hammer was running out of options. His ship was a mess, holed in a dozen places, the life support systems failing. Weakened hull sections were collapsing in pressure bursts. The vibrations that shook the deck beneath him now were not from the engines that once drove her forward, but now from the explosions down below, tearing her apart.

We all fail in some of our endeavors, but unfortunately, some of us tend not to see the reason to try again.

The word "frustration" is defined as the unfortunate tendency of lessening one's destiny. Rise up and take all frustrations away! Stop squeezing your dreams into a small size... You were not created to settle for less!

Today's world is flooded with participation trophies. In an attempt to promote equality we have robbed our youth of the most growth-inducing aspect of competition, failing. If you want to be resurrected, you have to first be crucified. Everybody wants to be reborn, but no one is willing to die. Losing, in the context of whatever arena it may be, is a microcosmic death. When we learn from our failures and grow because of them, we are reborn.

To fail is to not try at all.

When you fear falling, you never get off the ground.

We have all encountered some failures in our life, but some people became failures because they perceived theirs to be permanent.

When you fall into the gutter you tell yourself that you can climb out. Then you notice that you’re covered in filth but you still think that you can get out. But the smell seeps into your soul and is always there with you. All you need is someone else to look at you differently, talk to you like you’re someone that matters and extend a hand. Only then can you climb into the gutter.

When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!

Without failing at one thing, there won't be an opportunity to try again, learn and grow. Life isn't static but dynamic. Learn to embrace whatever situation you may face and strive to overcome. Believe in yourself, knowing your best is yet to come.

Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?

A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.

Your failure is a great teacher for you and it can also be a great teacher for others! Thus, when you fail, the experiences you gained and your invaluable indirect help to others must be your greatest consolation!

Your passion is measured by the difference between your willingness to take actions and your desire to quit. When your desire to quit outweighs your willingness to persist, you are ripe for failure!

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.

A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.

A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.

A father is a man who fails every day.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter.

A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.

A lot of people are afraid to succeed and don't want to fail but if you don't attempt, aren't you already failing in the same spot?

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the U.S. regularly fails to recognize and reflect this.

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.

An army of lovers shall not fail.

And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.