Top 100 Fail Quotes
#1. Life is a gift full of riddles in which suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined. Any attempt to have one without the other was simply bound to fail.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#2. You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default.
J.K. Rowling
#3. Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
Allen Neuharth
#4. Contrary to what phenomenology - which is always phenomenology of perception - has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.
Jacques Derrida
#5. When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.
William Cranch Bond
#6. You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.
Bum Phillips
#7. Think about science fiction movies with lots of special effects: If you notice that special effects are special effects, they will fail.
Stephen M. Kosslyn
#8. Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
Tony Robbins
#9. No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.
Sri Chinmoy
#10. We do what our rising-star photographer failed to do. What all photojournalists fail to do. We go get her out of that death of a life before she dies.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#11. We don't succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#12. Those who fail to understand mystery are doomed to crack it
Dean Cavanagh
#13. When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is.
Steve Pavlina
#14. major ramification of the ludic fallacy: how those whose job it is to make us aware of uncertainty fail us and divert us into bogus certainties through the back door.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#15. Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.
Joe Garagiola
#16. Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.
John Wooden
#17. Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.
William Feather
#19. Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#20. Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters.
Brian McNaughton
#21. Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due.
Jon Stewart
#22. I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
Wendell Wilkie
#23. The biggest challenge is how to get people to wake up and realize this is a one-shot deal. If we fail, we are witting participants in the biggest experiment humans have ever done: moving CO2 levels to twice their value in the past 670.000 years and hoping it turns out okay for generations to come.
Nathan Lewis
#25. Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn't fail to devastate in its time.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#26. Fear and failure are always present. Accept them as part of life and learn how to manage these realities. Be scared, but keep going. Being scared is usually transient. It will pass. If you fail, fix the causes and keep going.
Colin Powell
#27. "Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."
Anthony De Mello
#28. It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.
Albert Einstein
#29. I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.
Ty Burrell
#30. I've succeeded, I guess, but sometimes maybe to succeed is to fail
John Marsden
#31. Simple truths are never platitudes; they only become commonplace because we fail to live them profoundly.
John Furia Jr.
#32. If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors substitute the fundamental concepts of any particular science for those of metaphysics.
Etienne Gilson
#33. We're the league of the guilty, after all, not the league of the shortly-to-become-good. We are a work in progress. We will always be a work in progress. We will always fail, and it will always matter.
Francis Spufford
#34. Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies that have been proven to not only fail to reduce crime but actually increase crime, waste taxpayers' money and discriminate against minorities.
Bobby Scott
#35. Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
Bill Bonner
#36. All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
Blaise Pascal
#37. Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.
Allan Pease
#38. People come up with resolutions that don't reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.
Kelly McGonigal
#39. What you fail to destroy will eventually destroy you.
Mike Murdock
#40. If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
Eric Ries
#42. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.
Rooney Mara
#43. For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself ... one's friends must fail.
Gore Vidal
#44. A revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.
Shulamith Firestone
#45. Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?
Eric Maisel
#46. ...Success is built upon failure - usually an endless line of them! Were I to live in fear of failing, then I should never venture to try anything. And if I am to fail, then I would that it be an Epic failure!
C.A. Clark
#47. The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that's 'too big to fail' to actually fail.
Jerry A. Webman
#48. Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.
George Horace Lorimer
#49. Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Bruce Lee
#50. I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.
Prince
#51. The problem with feelings is neither that our moods fluctuate nor that our emotions seem to fail us. The greater dilemma is that most have only learned how to dance to one type of feeling.
T.K. Coleman
#52. People easily understand that 'primitives' cement their social order by believing in ghosts and spirits, and gathering each full moon to dance together around the campfire. What we fail to appreciate is that our modern institutions function on exactly the same basis.
Yuval Noah Harari
#53. Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
Thomas A. Edison
#54. We Americans seem to derive a great deal of pleasure out of punishing those who fail to measure up to our standards of morality and conduct--regardless of whether or not their conduct has any affect on our personal rights to life, liberty, and property.
Neal Boortz
#55. Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!
Karen Salmansohn
#56. Not to improve is fatal. Organizations who fail to respond to changes in the marketplace become stuck in a rut of product focused production with an ever shrinking market and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
Robin Byrne
#58. RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and fail to provide effective market discipline Facing prices that are too low, systemically important firms will take on too much risk."
Gary H. Stern
#60. Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
Yasmin Mogahed
#61. She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
Ann Brashares
#62. Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
Anna Pavlova
#63. You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.
Carrie Ryan
#64. If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.
Sallie Krawcheck
#65. In Eisman's view, the unwillingness of the U.S. government to allow the bankers to fail was less a solution than a symptom of a still deeply dysfunctional financial system.
Michael Lewis
#66. Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?
Brian Tracy
#67. Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
Kailash Satyarthi
#68. No man in public position can, under penalty of forfeiting the right to the respect of those whose regard he most values, fail as the opportunity comes to do all that in him lies for peace.
Theodore Roosevelt
#69. Methinks I could write a volume to you, but all the language on earth would fail in saying how much and with what disinterested passion I am ever yours.
Ika Natassa
#70. In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.
Diana Wynne Jones
#71. Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear, ... so penetrating that they cannot fail to enlighten the unbiased observer.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#72. Change for the better ... Let your change be purposeful and determined. Never repeat steps that always make you fail. Never change a step that brings you closer to excellence! You got to make a change!
Israelmore Ayivor
#74. Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.
Michelangelo
#75. Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;
Thou art fed with perpetual breath,
and alive after infinite changes,
And fresh from the kisses of death,
Of langours rekindled and rallied,
Of barren delights and unclean,
Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallid
And poisonous queen.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#76. Let my muse
Fail of thy former helps, and only use
Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me
Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.
Robert Herrick
#77. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence
-Eli
Sarah Dessen
#78. Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#79. If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.
John Tillotson
#80. In the timeless and universal manner of authors conversing in public places, he did not fail to mention its title, Volume III of Principia Mathematica entitled, The System of the World, available shortly, where books are sold.
Neal Stephenson
#82. But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's work is done.
Bliss Perry
#83. Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
Don Henley
#84. Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.
Desmond Tutu
#85. What insanity propels me to incessantly invest in a world that never ceases to fail me? And what ignorance bewitches me so thoroughly that it keeps me from investing in a God who never ceases to be unfailing?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#86. We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one - we are left with no companion save God. In
James Salter
#87. If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
Jesse Jackson
#88. There will always be times we struggle, make bad decisions, even fail. What's important is not that we fail, but that we learn and grow. And that we know that there is alway someone out there who believes in us.
Lisa McMann
#89. The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering
#90. Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.
Phil Knight
#92. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
Abraham Lincoln
#93. No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.
Henepola Gunaratana
#94. When you make a promise consistent with what is right, you can keep your word. When you show respect consistent with good taste, you keep shame and disgrace at a distance. When he in whom you confide is one who does not fail his friends, you may trust him fully.
Confucius
#95. The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
Brene Brown
#96. To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.
Kirk Cameron
#97. If you fail somehow
if you die
I will search for a way to walk through time to find you. No matter where you are. No matter when. I swear it.'
[Rune to Carling]
Thea Harrison
#98. The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti-Rev. Wright or, if Sen. Clinton wins, anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail. This model has already been tested with disastrous results.
Newt Gingrich
#99. Learn from your failures & go on to the next challenge. It's okay to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
H. Stanley Judd
#100. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.
Pope Francis
