Best 1227 quotes in «failing quotes» category

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive.

So rage, proud Power: fail again! And see my blood teach Death to die!

Somewhat predictably, I'm much more comfortable in front of an audience - and a big audience is even better - than faced with one stranger. This always seems like a bit of a failing on my part, as a human. I think that's also why I put myself situations where I'm forced to engage in other ways.

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

Successful people just don't let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I'd have people come up to me after my shows, and they'd say they want to do stand-up but are scared they're going to fail. I'd tell them, "You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.

That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if seasteads fail, they simply disassemble and go away.

That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.

The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.

The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.

The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

The bottom line is, you can't be afraid to fail.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.

The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.

The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

The difference between those who succeed and those who fail isn't what they have'it's what they choose to see and do with their resources and their expertise of life.

The exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.