Failing Once Quotes

#1. The ludicrous fever of toys struggling skyward, the sky itself more and more remote, the wind tearing the awning of cloud to tatters, pale limitless blue and green recessions laced with strands of scud, the light failing - once she would have noticed these things.

Samuel Beckett

#2. Failing once doesn't make you a failure. One difference between a successful person and an average person is how much criticism they can take, the average person cannot take much criticism and that's why they fail to be leaders and they do remain average all their lives

Robert Kiyosaki

#3. His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to accomplish anything.

W. Somerset Maugham

#4. Failing once in awhile is inevitable. The question is which way are we falling most of the time. Are we falling Backward or Forward, Downward or Forward?

Assegid Habtewold

#5. I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?

Cole Porter

#6. A lot of women have trouble with their mothers-in-law."
Raphael's look was priceless. "My mother is an insane archangel.

Nalini Singh

#7. We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

Henry Ford

#8. Perhaps no promise in life is more reassuring than that promise of divine assistance and spiritual guidance in times of need. It is a gift freely given from heaven, a gift that we need from our earliest youth through the very latest days of our lives.

Howard W. Hunter

#9. There is a fallible quality even in the greatest ones,everyone fails once in a while, be it Shah Rukh Khan or Ronaldhino

Shahrukh Khan

#10. The ... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.

Augustus John

#11. GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person ... spend time with the dying ... see things through to the end.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#12. Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.

E.W. Howe

#13. I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

Lady Gaga

#14. Everything changes, sweetheart. The universe loves to happen.

Lance Olsen

#15. Poor, dear old Mack, he was ninety-eight per cent perfect. His two percent failing was that he had absolutely no idea of the value or the power of arbitration. He was the veteran of a hundred battles, and I never once could say to the other fellow, 'Your dog started it.

William S. Hart

#16. It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.

Johnny Bench

#17. If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.

Mark Cuban

#18. I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, 'What the Hell was that.' As long as it somehow ties back into the story, somehow.

Allen Covert

#19. Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

Lois Wyse

#20. Just because you've failed once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything.

Marilyn Monroe

#21. We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

P.G. Wodehouse

#22. Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.

Kate Mosse

#23. Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.

Wayne Dyer

#24. The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one's new beau consistently failing to meet up to the grand expectations set by the meaning of one's existence. The only one.

Denis Fitzpatrick

#25. I have never, not once, gone on television and not received some email or tweet or comment about my hair. Without fail. Isn't that absurd? All it does is make me want to shape my bangs into a sort of middle finger-like sculpture.

Sally Kohn

#26. I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.

Martin Luther

#27. You will fail. At some point. More than once. Guaranteed. Proceed anyway.

Danielle LaPorte

#28. We're once again just a boy and a girl searching and failing for words and moments that transcend the mundane.

A.J. Compton

#29. Men are only so much use. Men are boys.

Garth Ennis

#30. Now or neverI 'To be or not to be!' - Oblomov raised himself from his chair a little, but failing to find his slippers with his feet at once, sat down again.

Ivan Goncharov

#31. Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

George Soros

#32. It's amazing", he whispered, "to know that my purpose in life is sitting in front of me.

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#33. Gemellus, who had loved and worshiped her from afar, she who was in his arms now ...

Melissa De La Cruz

#34. Celeborn is more fixed in his beliefs and methods than Galadriel, which is his failing, perhaps. As a team, they work well, although apparently they only have sex once every 2,000 years or so.

Marton Csokas

#35. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.

Dean Karnazes

#36. When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.

Sam Altman

#37. Despite the seriousness of our moment, I write with optimism. Once aware, we can begin to rethink our practices. When we do, conversation is there to reclaim. For the failing connections of our digital world, it is the talking cure.

Sherry Turkle

#38. My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.

Zoe Wanamaker

#39. Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

Swami Vivekananda

#40. The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.

Lenny Kravitz