Top 100 Fail To Do Quotes
#1. The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.
Freeman Dyson
#2. Over the years, I've come to recognize that democratization in Ethiopia is not just a matter of choice. It's a matter of national survival. I am deeply convinced that we either democratize and have a good chance of surviving, or if we fail to do so, we disintegrate.
Meles Zenawi
#3. We are responsible not only for what we do, but also for what we fail to do.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#4. The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly.
John Hunt Morgan
#5. It pain me to tell you that once again Count Olaf would appear with yet another disgusting scheme, and that Mr. Poe would once again fail to do anything even remotely helpful.
Lemony Snicket
#6. You and I must live temptation-aware; to fail to do so is to fail to recognize the fallenness of the world that happens to be the address where we live.
Paul David Tripp
#7. We do not fail to enjoy the fruit of the Spirit because we live in a sea of corruption; we fail to do so because the sea of corruption is in us.
Billy Graham
#8. Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.
Arthur Henderson
#9. When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.
D'Andre Lampkin
#10. The interesting thing about procrastination is that is has more to do with what we fail to do than with what we do.
Nido R. Qubein
#11. We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.
Judith McNaught
#12. The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.
Michelle Shocked
#13. The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.
Stewart Stafford
#14. Do not give attention to what others do or fail to do; give attention to what you do or fail to do,
Wayne W. Dyer
#15. Of course. I understand."
"One of your brilliant mentality could not fail to do so, Hastings.
Agatha Christie
#16. There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.
Mary Lyon
#17. If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.
Robert Mugabe
#18. No failure you have need to fear, Except to fail to do your best - What have you done, what can you do? That is the question, that the test.
Various
#19. Nobility most fully resides not in success but in trying to do the right thing ... and that when we fail to do that, or willfully turn away from the challenge, hell follows.
Stephen King
#20. My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
Richard Dawkins
#21. I'd rather succeed in doing what we can than fail to do what we can't.
Richard Adams
#22. Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
Gautama Buddha
#23. When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
#24. People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.
John Roberts
#25. If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.
John James Audubon
#26. I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
Helen Keller
#27. You can KNOW something yet FAIL to do it!
Kevin Myers
#28. Your repressed feelings desperately try to climb to the surface but fail to do so, and in therapy we seek to reveal -- to uncloak, if you will -- these unconscious desires, the things that your mind tries to repress, those secrets of your soul.
Allan Dare Pearce
#29. As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
Barry Ritholtz
#30. Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.
Robert Darnton
#31. Behind your enemy's smile lies treachery. Show him that behind yours lies steel. Fail to do so, and you only make him bolder.
C.L. Wilson
#32. You should fall because you fail to do the move, not because you fail to try the move.
Andy Kirkpatrick
#33. Life is like the wind on the ocean; if it is against you, it doesn't really matter what direction it comes from or what direction it blows. It also doesn't matter what you do or fail to do. So you are better off doing whatever you want.
Dauglas Dauglas
#34. You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.
William Galston
#35. If we fail to do something, the people following us will have nothing to build upon
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do this, our prayer life will either die from discouragement and despair or become simply a duty which we feel we must perform.
Ole Hallesby
#37. The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.
Leon Bloy
#38. I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do but often forget or fail to do often enough.
Steven Sinofsky
#39. You don't remember what you never fail to do, that is common knowledge,
Per Petterson
#40. We get on now with a lighter step, and quicker: ridicule is found to be more convincing than argument, imaginary agonies touch more than true sorrows, and monthly novels convince, when learned quartos fail to do so.
Anthony Trollope
#41. To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
Plutarch
#42. Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
Clara Barton
#43. If it is so easy to help people in real need through no fault of their own, and yet we fail to do so, aren't we doing something wrong? At a minimum, I hope this book will persuade you that there is something deeply askew with our widely accepted views about what it is to live a good life.
Peter Singer
#44. Don't fail to do something just because you can't do everything
Richard Stearns
#45. If you cry 'Forward' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?
Anton Chekhov
#46. We must make democracy the popular creed ... If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer ... That is what my father said. It is the reason why I am participating in this struggle.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#47. Offices are peculiar places and nobody is ever quite sure what happens in them, least of all the people who work there. But the day tends to begin with a morning meeting, in which everybody decides what they will fail to do for the rest of the day.
Mark Forsyth
#48. It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do ...
Jane Austen
#49. To lessen or destroy sexual pleasure is to lessen temptation; a fallback in case the religious injunctions on veiling and seclusion somehow fail to do the job.
Geraldine Brooks
#50. To do good to one is to do bad to another. But you don't need to hear my excuses. They are the same that everyone makes to themselves when faced with the misery of others; though they would like to do the right thing, they simply fail to do so and look after themselves instead.
Fay Weldon
#51. We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...
James Sallis
#52. Face it, nobody owes you anything. What you achieve, or fail to achieve is directly related to what you do or fail to do.
Anonymous
#53. People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.
Scott Berkun
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. First you must face your own reality in the present, here and now! If you fail to do that, if you do not obtain first-hand experience from it, there will be no deep, far-reaching changes in you.
Frank M. Wanderer
#57. Trying is terrifying because I know I will just fail. But I do want things to be different. I do ... I am so afraid. I'm afraid to hope again.
Nic Sheff
#58. Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
Julian Barnes
#59. There is only one reason that you ever fail at anything ... and that is because you eventually change your mind. That's it! ... anything and everything you have ever decided to do, you have succeeded, or will succeed, at doing.
Victor L. Wooten
#60. It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience's role in it will be.
Edwin Schlossberg
#62. Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.
Tom Cruise
#63. Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do.
Jeffrey Fry
#64. Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.
Kim Swift
#65. If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?
Simon Pegg
#66. The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.
Jim Corbett
#67. I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists.
Daryl Wein
#68. Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
Orson Scott Card
#69. Sometimes we focus so much on what we don't have that we fail to see, appreciate, and use what we do have!
Jeff Dixon
#70. I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.
Kurt Schrader
#71. A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#72. You can do a couple things and succeed, or you can try to do fifteen things and fail at all of them.
Penelope Douglas
#73. People fail all the time, it's what we're made to do. We all have moments of fear and weakness, we all stumble on rocks of bitter jealousy.
Melody Grace
#74. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
#75. I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.
Peter Dinklage
#76. If I had seen one miracle fail, I had witnessed another; and even a seemingly purposeless miracle is an inexhaustible source of hope, because it proves to us that since we do not understand everything, our defeats - so much more numerous than our few and empty victories - may be equally specious.
Gene Wolfe
#77. A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
William Faulkner
#78. Now, I've been known to be attractive on special occasions, and I do my best to project as much beauty as I can muster from deep inside, though I often fail.
Terry McMillan
#79. A child, I'm miserable admitting it, a child stands like a priest under his father's sky. Why do you fate me to fail you?
Denis Johnson
#81. All the people in the Kuo-ch'ing monastery They say, "Han-shan is an idiot." "Am I really an idiot:" I reflect. But my reflections fail to solve the question: for I myself do not know who the self is, And how can others know who I am?
Hanshan
#82. Stop judging your life only by the failures," he whispered.
"What should I do?" she whispered. "I'm always going to fail."
"We all do," he said softly, his voice closer now. "We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.
Michelle Sagara West
#83. With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.
Hugh Jackman
#84. I don't always do what I say but if you want to follow my actions, be my guest. You can do what I do and fail, or you can do what I say and move on with your life. It's your choice.
Nicketa Gomes
#85. Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.
Randy Pausch
#86. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson
#87. Civilizations do fail. We have never seen one that hasn't. The difference is that the torch of progress has, in the past, always passed to another region of the world. But we now for the first time have a single, global civilization. If it fails, we all fail together.
John Brockman
#88. Do not fail me again, Raphael. To you she is just an object or course; to me, she is life
Karen Swart
#89. I want a more difficult life, that's all. What I really want is a first-rate life. I may not get it, but the only chance I have lies in getting out of a second-rate life. I may fail completely, but I do want to try. It's to do with me, not you; so don't worry.
Julian Barnes
#90. When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us every time, no matter how many times we've fallen before. I hope you will remember that the next time you fail ... Remembering that is the most important work as parents we can possibly do.
Cheryl Strayed
#91. Well, I guess I'm just not as special as you are. (Urian)
No one knows their true mettle until it's been tested. This is yours. Whether you pass or fail is entirely up to you. I can't tell you what to do, but I know where I'll be tonight. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#92. It is the general rule of the moral universe that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are almost certain to fail who go to their labour leaving half their hearts behind them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#93. You choose the wrong career, select the wrong mortgage or fail to save for retirement, markets do not correct those failings. In fact, quite the opposite often happens. It is much easier to make money by catering to consumers' biases than by trying to correct them.
Anonymous
#94. If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is no need to fear failure.
Anh Do
#95. The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.
Swami Vivekananda
#96. The good man does not grieve
that other people do not recognize his merits.
His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.
Confucius
#97. It sounded like the wheel on Wheel of Fortune, do you want to spin or do you want to solve the puzzle? Remember that if you try to solve the puzzle and fail, you will be put out into the snow beside the Connecticut Turnpike and the wolves will eat you.
Stephen King
#98. When we have fallen and need to get back up again, we are able to do it in His strength walking in His Spirit. Cling to the Spirit of Christ Jesus - He will never fail.
Monica Johnson
#99. everyone is scared sometimes to do something. They don't think they can do it. They don't want to fail. They don't want to make a fool of themselves. That's when the courage really kicks in.
Claire Thompson
#100. Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.
Cennino Cennini
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