Fail Quotes

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

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.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

We've talked to the Europeans about it. It's clear if those negotiations fail, then we are agreed with the Europeans that the next step is to take the matter to the U.N. Security Council.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.