Fail Quotes

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.

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.

I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.

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

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.

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.

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.