Failing Quotes

• I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Want
  • Audience
  • Failing

• I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

  

  Jonathan Ames
  • Present
  • Moment
  • Failing

• Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Church
  • Goal
  • Vote

• When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.

  

  Karla Cheatham Mosley
  • Mistake
  • Shows
  • Lessons

• When I look around, the biggest way in which we are failing to care for those in need is through ignoring climate change and acting like it doesn't exist. As a Christian, I believe that is something the church needs to know.

  

  Katharine Hayhoe
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Christian

• Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.

  

  Alexandra Robbins
  • Failing
  • Outsider
  • Indicate

• To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Failure

• It is extremely interesting to me that black males, and other black folk, are viewed as self-pitying, by either other blacks who have failed to accurately calculate their own diminished status as a result of racial animosity - both individual and systemic - or by whites who fail to comprehend how, after forcing black folk into subservience for hundreds of years, they now whine about small privileges that pale - so to speak - in comparison to the untold advantage of centuries of benefit.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Interesting
  • Speak
  • Individual

• The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.

  

  George Clooney
  • Fun
  • Succeed
  • Failing

• Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies, we fall in love with each other. We all know that, but the moment we go beyond a catalogue of surface qualities and appearances, words begin to fail us, to crumble apart in mystical confusions and cloudy, unsubstantial metaphors.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Fall
  • Moments
  • Quality

• One of my failings as a new reporter is that I don't know when to stop. It's a very fine line, and I think that's a really important skill to have - to know when to stop asking questions. I’m still trying to figure that out.

  

  Erin Siegal McIntyre
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Failing

• Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Hell
  • Answers
  • Drink

• My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Giving
  • Ability
  • Succeed

• Gregor lifted the knife and slammed it down. The tops of the carrot rolled across the table, some hitting the floor. "What are you doing?" "I'm chopping carrots." "Gregor, they are carrots! not tree branches." "I fail to see the difference.

  

  Karen Hawkins
  • Differences
  • Branches
  • Tables

• A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • Business
  • Interesting
  • Models

• When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.

  

  William Cranch Bond
  • Trying
  • Succeed
  • Keep

• 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
  • Long
  • War
  • Moral

• Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Successful
  • Succeed
  • Passionate

• It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

  

  William James
  • Fall
  • Lonely
  • Failing

• To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Mistake
  • Failing
  • Watches

• If I try to figure out what people want and give it to them, it's a failure. If I try to please people and figure out what's going to get me from point A to point B, I fail. But I think if I do what I want to do, in the long run, maybe not tomorrow, but at some point, I think it'll pay off and it'll at least feel honest.

  

  Gary Louris
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Running

• There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Failing
  • Plans
  • Missions

• My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Trying
  • Changed
  • Birthday

• Once you make the decision that you will not fail, the heart and the body will follow.

  

  Kara Goucher
  • Heart
  • Decision
  • Body

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