Best 1227 quotes in «failing quotes» category

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.

The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.

The same feeling you get from succeeding is the same feeling I get from failing, now imagine what happens when I win.

The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.

The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.

These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'

The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

The shame in life is not to fail to reach your dream, but to fail to have a dream to reach.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

The term "too big to fail" must be excised from our vocabulary.

The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.

The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

The studios still had development programs for young people. Because you weren't talking about the budgets of small nations the way you are now when you make a movie. There was a lot more freedom to fail.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation.

The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.

The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

The up side of down: why failing well is the key to success.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

Those who deny the change in consciousness that the divine process of creation now brings about-or actually imposes on us-and fail to develop their intuition accordingly will sooner or later find themselves at a dead end.

Those who invest only to get rich will fail. Those who invest to help others will probably succeed.