Fail Quotes

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

What I am proud of is I have searched for the best of me and I have been a team man without fail.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

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

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

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

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.'

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.

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.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.