Failing To Quotes

#1. My disability was my justification! It was my excuse for failing to engage with the world.

The Arbinger Institute

#2. Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

Alain De Botton

#3. There is a deep contradiction in failing to enjoy life and yet fearing death when faced with it.

Yoshida Kenko

#4. Why would he try to ruin something so beautiful? What is the world he was trying, and failing to create?
What is the world Runnemood is trying to create? And why must they both create their worlds by destroying?

Kristin Cashore

#5. One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Abraham H. Maslow

#6. It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.

Stephen Fry

#7. More than any other form of entertainment, video games tend to divide rooms into Us and Them. We are, in effect, admitting that we like to spend our time shooting monsters, and They are, not unreasonably, failing to find the value in that.

Tom Bissell

#8. Yet in one sense they can miss it: that is, by failing to focus on it, even when in general terms they are aware of its reality.

J.I. Packer

#9. The acomodador: Because according to the story we are told, there always comes a moment in our lives when we reach "our limit" ... there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress

Paulo Coelho

#10. Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. As it turned out, Clark's shortcomings as a strategist - particularly failing to accurately take the measure of Milosevic - were as nothing in comparison to his deficiencies as a battlefield general.

Andrew J. Bacevich

#12. Part. The sin God rebukes is not trying and failing, but failing to try. Trying, failing, and trying again is called learning.

Henry Cloud

#13. A few years ago I switched to an entirely different kind of New Year's resolution. Instead of vowing to improve, I pledge to do a better job of accepting my bad habits - to stop worrying about failing to be the person I used to imagine I could be.

Mel White

#14. It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

Judy Woodruff

#15. Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.

James Q. Wilson

#16. I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.

Tim Cahill

#17. I can see how I am always in perpetual motion through time, how I can never stop, obsessed with the past, projecting myself into the future, clutching at and always failing to grasp the wisp of now.

Charles Yu

#18. America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

Garry Trudeau

#19. I had everything I could possibly want
yet I was failing to appreciate it. Bogged down in petty complaints and passing crises, weary of struggling with my own nature, I too often failed to comprehend the splendor of what I had.

Gretchen Rubin

#20. A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.

Joan Robinson

#21. The only thing worse than failing to realize any of your dreams, is seeing them all come true. You were meant for something more. Even if you could be known the world over, what does it matter if you have no time to be known by God?

Kevin DeYoung

#22. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin

#23. When we succumb to temptation, we are failing to believe in that moment that everything we need, in Christ we already have.

Tullian Tchividjian

#24. We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership,

Sheryl Sandberg

#25. Unfortunately, people don't know how they are created and live making grave mistakes, losing their peace, destroying their mentality and failing to fulfill their callings

Sunday Adelaja

#26. ...holding your hand out and making a gesture that, in the surreal parrallel universe of the classroom would suggest that instruction, but anywhere else would be taken for a drunkard's poorly achieved impression of an epileptic spider failing to negotiate a hairpin bend.

Phil Beadle

#27. Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

Max Lerner

#28. God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

Walt Whitman

#29. The root of our disobedience is essentially failing to remember who he is. And the reverse is true - for as long as we remember who he is, we will serve him wholeheartedly, radically, and joyfully.

Timothy Keller

#30. We have a choice between those who are failing to deliver and those who are unthinkable ... Neither party currently is where the country is.

Newt Gingrich

#31. Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.

Brian Greene

#32. Fundamentally, failing to use data isn't a technological problem, but a social problem.

Zach Gemignani

#33. Humans are not put to sleep for failing to provide leadership for their dogs, countless dogs have lost their lives for the want of it.

Suzanne Clothier

#34. 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.

John Dingell

#35. The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim.

Parker J. Palmer

#36. Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 1994.

Greg Mortenson

#37. The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition.

Confucius

#38. So many fear death - spending their precious waking hours discussing it - while failing to notice that deep sleep is no different. It's as if they don't hear Mother Nature telling them not to worry every day.

Anthony Marais

#39. Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.

Confucius

#40. People go through life failing to see all sorts of amazing things because they aren't expecting to see them.

Dean Koontz

#41. Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Holbrook Jackson

#42. Resisting temptation and instilling self-control are general human goals, and repeatedly failing to achieve them is a source of much of our misery.

Dan Ariely

#43. If you ask people to do things and they usually don't get around to them, stop asking yourself, "What's the matter with people these days?" Instead, ask yourself, "What's the matter with me? What am I doing or failing to do that causes people to give me empty promises?"

Ed Bliss

#44. I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.

Jamal Lewis

#45. 'Bush v. Gore' gave us a president who lost the popular vote, eventually appointed two more justices, and led us into a war of choice while failing to regulate a financial system dependent on toxic mortgage-backed derivatives.

Marvin Ammori

#46. Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.

Paul Sloane

#47. Failing to plan is planning to fail. Hope is not a plan.

Harrison Jones

#48. Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Benny Goodman

#49. The failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of racism is maintained by a variety of forces, including both physical violence and false consciousness.

Adrienne Rich

#50. You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy..

Alma Alexander

#51. With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline.
Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#52. He looked like an angelic little boy who had been kicked out of his orphanage for failing to take part in group masturbation.

Charles Wright

#53. Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and confidence are a natural result of proper preparation.

John Wooden

#54. The story of the cursing of the fig tree is important for us today, for as the Jews of Jesus' time were accountable for failing to bring forth fruit, so too are we accountable for the fruits we bring forth.

Eric D. Huntsman

#55. Failing to set goals is like setting out on a road trip without a map.

Michelle Moore

#56. Our marriage has always been an island, a safe place where sea-dragons and monstrous creatures can't reach us. Now we're letting them in, gnashing teeth and all, and we are failing to protect each other.

Nina Lane

#57. Tolerating somebody else's beliefs is not failing to criticize them. It's not persecuting them for having those beliefs. That is absolutely important. You should not persecute people for their beliefs. It doesn't mean you can't criticize their beliefs.

Colin McGinn

#58. Disappointed dragged at her chest. She wasn't even sure if she was disappointed in him for behaving true to form, or in herself for failing to anticipate it

Louisa Edwards

#59. Failing to follow your dream is the most pernicious form of suicide.

Deborah L. Fruchey

#60. They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air.

Joshua Ferris

#61. Failing to plan, is like planning to fail.

Stephen McCranie

#62. shame is the voice of perfectionism. Whether we're talking about appearance, work, motherhood, health or family, it's not the quest for perfection that is so painful; it's failing to meet the unattainable expectations that lead to the painful wash of shame.

Brene Brown

#63. The undisciplined mind is like an elephant. If left to blunder around out of control, it will wreak havoc. But the harm and suffering we encounter as a result of failing to restrain the negative impulses of mind far exceed the damage a rampaging elephant can cause.

Dalai Lama XIV

#64. Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.

Anthon St. Maarten

#65. Too much of British business and industry feels similarly secure in the warm embrace of the European single market and is failing to recognise that today's great export opportunities lie in the developing world, particularly in Asia.

Nigel Lawson

#66. 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.

Mark Skousen

#67. Procrastination is failing to get on with life itself.

Timothy A. Pychyl

#68. The Hedonic Treadmill By failing to anticipate the extent of our hedonic adaptation, as consumers we routinely escalate our purchases, hoping that new stuff will make us happier.

Dan Ariely

#69. The God that Nietzsche imagined, in the end, was not far from the God that such an artist as Joseph Conrad imagines - a supreme craftsman, ever experimenting, ever coming closer to an ideal balancing of lines and forces, and yet always failing to work out the final harmony.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#70. In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

Chuck Palahniuk

#71. From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

Max De Pree

#72. In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

Darell Hammond

#73. At this point, Underwood turns to us and remarks that "the only thing more satisfying than convincing someone to do what I want is failing to persuade them on purpose. It's like a Do Not Enter sign - it just begs you to walk through the door.

J. Edward Hackett

#74. You're Facebook friends with Tiny?" "Yes. He request-friended me," Mom says, epically failing to speak Facebook.

John Green

#75. Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?

Brian Tracy

#76. Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

Jamie Oliver

#77. Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for allowing the terrible facts to be sunk deep in the memory hole. All of this is of great significance, as it has been in the past.

Noam Chomsky

#78. Failure in and of itself is not a bad thing. But failing to learn from it is inexcusable.

Alison Levine

#79. It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.

Wendell Berry

#80. Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

Leslie Jamison

#81. Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.

Andrew Soltis

#82. The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.

Clive James

#83. Too many hearts have been broken, failing to trust what they feel.

Dan Fogelberg

#84. Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

Miep Gies

#85. There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.

George F. Will

#86. Denial, as any addict in recovery will tell you, is not defined as knowing something and pretending you don't; it is failing to see it at all.

Jan Ellison

#87. If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#88. Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is Parliament that is failing to provide good value for money.

Margaret Hodge

#89. Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.

Stephen Richards

#90. I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

Anna Paquin

#91. And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.

David Plouffe

#92. Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the leap into senior positions. Everyone jumps to the conclusion that it's motherhood that holds women back, but often the big roadblock is the lack of executive presence.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#93. Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#94. By failing to let others be themselves before God and move at their own pace, we inevitably project onto them our own discomfort with their choice to live life differently than we do.

Peter Scazzero

#95. None of this makes sense. At best, you've spent a lot of time failing to change someone's mind. At worst, you've made an enemy, damaged a relationship, and added to your reputation for being disagreeable.

Marshall Goldsmith

#96. Failing to differentiate among employees - and holding on to bottom-tier performers - is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

Jack Welch

#97. In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

Saint Augustine

#98. Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!

David Batterson

#99. No amount of advertising can repair the damage done by failing to properly address a customer's concern.

Albert Houtum-Schindler

#100. By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally.

Sam Harris