Fail Quotes

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

I've never been afraid to fail.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.

That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.