Failing Quotes

By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

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

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.

What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

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.

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.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

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.

Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!

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'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

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.

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.