Failing Quotes

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.