Best 1227 quotes in «failing quotes» category

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.

Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity.

Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

No creature, large or small, ever fails to cover the ground upon which it stands.

No matter what the price offered, no Downworlder would fail to listen to a warning against one of the nephilim.

No man fails who does his best.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the good and brave.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

No one should ever be afraid of failing; it's being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it's so easy to stop doing the very things that brought you to the top.

Nothing fails like failure

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.

Now, I've been known to be attractive on special occasions, and I do my best to project as much beauty as I can muster from deep inside, though I often fail.

Obamacare if failing, we're going to repeal it and we're going to replace it.

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).

O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.

One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

One of the things that drives me is the excitement that I could fail. What better buzz can you get?

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.

One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

Only the dying take pleasure in the details of what the healthy fail to notice.

Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.

Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.