Fails Quotes

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

One fails forward toward success.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?

The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.

I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.

When all else fails, complicate matters.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.

These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The Afghan security forces will always have the help of the U.S. American military to ensure that Afghanistan never fails.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.