Top 100 To Fail Quotes
#1. Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.
Jenny Shipley
#2. Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.
Celia Green
#3. Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they will also suffer in recruiting employees as well as attracting customers.
John Replogle
#4. We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.
John R. Mott
#5. He was the test I hadn't studied for, the quiz I was bound to fail. Out of my depth.
Maria V. Snyder
#6. At times we fail to find solution for our challenges, but those solutions are very much around us. Our creativity can help us reach those solutions.
Sukant Ratnakar
#7. 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
#8. Each day is new, but our lives shall be old in each new day if we fail to understand why each day is new.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#9. Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to release those qualities of your mind that can generate images of the world as you would prefer it to be or the world as you declare it to be.
Peter London
#10. That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.
Andrew Carnegie
#11. We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.
Richard Sennett
#12. If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.
Mark Spitz
#13. 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
#14. To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.
Brian Tracy
#15. When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.
Debbie Ford
#16. Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.
Martin Henderson
#17. The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
Helen Keller
#18. You wouldn't be the first trainee to fail, you know. You won't be the last, either. It takes real courage to submit." Ashley's
Claire Thompson
#19. This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.
David Niven
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image.
Sidney Jourard
#23. I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.
Jessie Snow
#24. I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'
Sara Blakely
#25. I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of people are having and I'm standing up and saying that's not okay. Frankly, I can't fail. I will not fail.
Whitney Thompson
#26. Sometimes it's hard for me to start something because I'd rather not try at all than fail at it
Kasie West
#27. Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.
Richard G. Scott
#28. Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.
Justin Welby
#29. Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality.
Munia Khan
#30. People fail to realize that horror isn't just monsters and death. Sometimes, it's learning to accept the darkness of human nature.
Kayla Krantz
#31. If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment.
Mario Van Peebles
#32. The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill
#33. If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying.
Tiffany Hawk
#34. To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.
David Wilkerson
#35. We must settle this question now
whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
#36. 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
#38. People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
Norman Vincent Peale
#39. If you chase the art, you really can't fail because you'll always be able to look at yourself in the mirror. And that's not about making angry decisions, either, it's about always doing the right thing for you, your fans and your art.
Gerard Way
#40. To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it
Donald Hall
#41. I think changing the Democratic Party platform [at the convention] is a great place to start. It should include expanding Social Security, a $15 minimum wage, and breaking up too-big-to-fail banks on Wall Street - among other Sanders priorities.
Ben Wikler
#42. 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
#43. When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.
Paula Abdul
#45. I am hurting. The tears don't come anymore. They don't have the guts to anymore. I know that if I fail at that, it will mean the death of me.
Abigail George
#46. Any other foundation will fail, but Christ is a sure and steady rock to build your life on.
Billy Graham
#47. It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.
Alice Morse Earle
#48. What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.
James Dickey
#49. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
Olivia Jake
#50. We fail to see the gospel as the solution to our greatest problem-our guilt, condemnation, and alienation from God. Beyond that, we fail to see it as the basis of our day-to-day acceptance with Him. As a result, many believers live in spiritual poverty.
Jerry Bridges
#51. Behind all of the "I can'ts" are merely "I won'ts." The "I won'ts" mean "I am afraid to" or "I am ashamed to" or "I have too much pride to try, for fear I might fail." Behind that is anger at ourselves and circumstances engendered by pride.
David R. Hawkins
#52. In the past I've tended to overreact. I was sure I'd be a superstar by the time I was twenty-one. Baseball messed up my plan of life. When I fail I get upset. Sometimes I get upset too quickly, without thinking of consequences.
Albert Belle
#53. Fucking hell. Shit sounds like I'm writing for ladies who lunch on Fifth Avenue. Unending vortex of ugly? Holy sensationalism, Batman! Who the fuck am I writing for? I could move in closer, get to the real Singer, but I'll just fail like every other journalist
Marlon James
#54. Forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do,
the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail
Masashi Kishimoto
#55. Going bearded seemed one less thing to have to fail at.
Charles Frazier
#56. If you set out to fail and you succeed, what have you done?
Stuart Harris
#57. The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a "real" man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who "goes with" other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
Quentin Crisp
#58. A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.
Michel Faber
#59. 1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
Self
#60. On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do.
Taylor Schilling
#61. Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.
Pittacus Of Mytilene
#62. When something is as fundamental as trust the danger is that everyone thinks they understand what it is and therefore fail to define it.
David Amerland
#63. The model for tomorrow, and this is the model I've been using with enormous enthusiasm since I started blogging back in 2001, is to try everything. Make mistakes. Surprise ourselves. Try anything else. Fail. Fail better. And succeed in ways we never would have imagined a year or a week ago.
Neil Gaiman
#64. I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.
Hugh Grant
#65. Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.
Martha Beck
#66. So often we fail to acknowledge what we have because we're so concerned about what we want.
John Wooden
#67. Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.
James C. Collins
#68. You're not who he expected you to be; that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.
Robin Hobb
#70. People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.
Marcel Proust
#71. Sometimes in our zeal to "apply" a text, we fail to read the text in its context. And more often than we may all care to admit, our frustrations over how to apply a text can be completely resolved with a more accurate interpretation.
Scot McKnight
#72. Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
Marva Collins
#73. Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.
Simon Van Booy
#74. Please let me know if I am not here
Let me know if I fail to find you there
For before the dawn I leave the night behind me
And before my heart I let you leave me behind.
Munia Khan
#75. An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land
#76. Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.
Henry David Thoreau
#78. When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#79. A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.
Mike Piazza
#80. No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
Kenneth Clark
#81. Don't grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.
Confucius
#82. In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.
David Geffen
#83. We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!
Yasser Arafat
#84. Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.
Ernest Holmes
#85. So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.
William James
#86. Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.
Alice Walker
#87. Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children
these are the only investments that never fail.
Henry David Thoreau
#88. Darkness disturbed
By the haunting white moonlight
Grey half clouds fail to contain
The moon's lust for the night.
Sreesha Divakaran
#89. I rise, I fall
Always trying.
I succeed, I fail
Seldom crying.
You've been so far
Yet near to my heart.
I remember you
Seldom crying.
You've left me
I've been so lonely.
I try to laugh and end up,
Seldom crying.
MoKSh
#90. I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm not afraid to be alone. I'm just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes.
Kinky Friedman
#91. Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.
Napoleon Hill
#92. Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.
Murray Walker
#93. Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.
Simon Sinek
#94. No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.
Annie Besant
#95. Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
Guy Kawasaki
#96. Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.
Bram Cohen
#97. Never be afraid to try. The only angle through which you can approach success is by the "try-angle". You may fail if you try, but shame unto you if you don't try at all. If you fail ... rise up and try again and again!
Israelmore Ayivor
#98. Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.
John C. Maxwell
#99. I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
Tim Berners-Lee
#100. We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.
A.W. Tozer
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