Quotes About Letting People Down

#1. A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

Michael Morpurgo

#2. Commitment is not letting people down. That's very important in life.

Richard Branson

#3. Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

Jonny Wilkinson

#4. Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

Cyril Connolly

#5. Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.

Jim Crace

#6. I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

Jonny Wilkinson

#7. But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

Parminder Nagra

#8. Even if your family isn't quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.

Alicia Keys

#9. Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.

Taylor Swift

#10. I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

Annie Baker

#11. People may get angry at us for setting boundaries; they can't use us anymore. They may try to help us feel guilty so we will remove our boundary and return to the old system of letting them use or abuse us. Don't feel guilty and don't back down.

Melody Beattie

#12. Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets ... it's the same with my skin care range; that's out of necessity. As soon as I saw the first signs, I bought everything in the market.

Lulu

#13. It's amazing, really, how in one instant a wall can be torn down, or climbed over. Misconceptions can be shattered, illusions dashed, dreams irrevocably ruined. Given the right frame of mind, within a heartbeat, people can begin the business of starting over.

Tamara Thiel

#14. Republicans always play the same game. They are for big business and money interests...We know from long experience that the people are better served by Democratic public officials, and we are letting the people down when we permit factional fighting to put Republicans in office.

Marc Sandalow

#15. Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.

Cathy Kelly

#16. If someone were to say, we should not letting Jews into the country, and people had a reaction against that, would that be the same thing as that kind of toxic political correctness tamping down honest discussion?

Chris Hayes

#17. People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

Nick Cave

#18. What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

Michael Vick

#19. I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.

Rupert Everett

#20. Laughter is really a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in.

David Dobkin

#21. We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear

Peggy Noonan

#22. The day you STOP expecting people to have the same compassion as you do,love like you & act like you would in a situation ... Will be the day that will people stop letting you down.

Stuart J. Scesney

#23. A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

V.S. Naipaul

#25. I've definitely had obstacles in my career - my whole entire career - to stay a certain weight, to get smaller than I have been, but I look at my family, I look at where I come from and that's not really in our genes.

Raven-Symone

#26. I am done slowing down, giving people their time and space, letting them explore their options.

Marla Miniano

#27. I don't mean you should despise people for being weak, if it's a kind of weakness they can't help. But when they're weak on purpose, it's another thing. When they don't even try. When they let people hurt them and don't fight back. It's gross. It's letting down the whole human race.

Mary Gaitskill

#28. The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.

Billy Boyd

#29. I don't want to do what my idols did ... I want to do more than they did. And I feel like I'm on my way.

AJ Lee

#30. [Suddenly letting slip the train of thought.] Do you know, the people down at the hotel think she's mad. PROFESSOR RUBEK. Indeed? And pray what do the people down at the hotel think of you and the bear-killer?

Henrik Ibsen

#31. Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another.

Jeremy Stoppelman