Fail Quotes

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail.

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

It's quite hard when you do fail and you don't achieve what you want to achieve.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

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

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

I fail all of the time. It means nothing.

Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.