Fails Quotes
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A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.
Emile Gaboriau -
People respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another.
Kiefer Sutherland
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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.
Ivan Turgenev -
No wonder that my remembrance fails me, for I shall complete my 70 years next Sunday (the 22); - and during these 70 years I have had a happy life; which still remains happy because of hope and content.
Michael Faraday -
Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.
Seth Godin -
The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of; we have neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us.
John Stuart Mill -
The man unwilling to brave the test has already shown himself to be much more craven than the man who fails.
Brandon Mull -
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
Norman MacEwen
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My faith is the only thing that never fails me.
Hayley Williams Paramore -
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
George Bernard Shaw -
I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.
Sid Waddell -
Everything seems stupid when it fails.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?
Jonathan Swift -
Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.
Martin Luther -
When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails -
Everything fails, all the time.
Werner Vogels -
Without your right to have money that holds it's value, all else just fails because you don't have any real money.
Bernard von NotHaus -
It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.
Soren Kierkegaard
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What if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction? ... Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal.
Bill Clinton -
There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails.
Susan Powter -
When your art fails, make better art.
Seth Godin -
It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
Harry Emerson Fosdick