Fail Quotes

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated.

The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.