Failing Quotes

• I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • World
  • Believe
  • Film

• How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Men
  • Together
  • Fall

• When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Succeed
  • Failing

• 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
  • Failing
  • Jews
  • Accountable

• The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Values
  • Experiments
  • Experimentation

• It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.

  

  Caterina Fake
  • Enjoy
  • Process
  • Building

• How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Trying
  • Hands
  • Next

• I'm pretty confident the why works now. When it first began, somebody said to me: "Will this work in big business?" I said, "I don't know. Let's try." Somebody said will this work in entrepreneurs, relationships or government and military. I said, "I don't know. Let's try." I kept applying the scientific method. I had a theory. I kept applying that theory, looking for opportunities to fail and it kept working.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Trying
  • Opportunity
  • Military

• You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Character
  • Failing
  • Constructs

• Beloved, there is nothing you can do today to make God love you more, and there’s nothing you can do to make Him love you any less… Beloved, it’s not enough that you know that God loves everyone. You need to know and believe that He loves you, and let that revelation burn in your heart, especially when you fail.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Enough

• Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.

  

  Francis Chan
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Hate

• What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • World
  • Trying
  • Goal

• All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Important
  • Brain
  • Emotion

• Sure, in a ninja's world, those who violate the rules and fail to follow orders...are lower than garbage. However...those who do not care for and support their fellows...are even lower than that!" - Obito Uchiha

  

  Masashi Kishimoto
  • World
  • Support
  • Failing

• To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

  

  Stephen Frears
  • Successful
  • Failing

• If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Mean
  • Stories

• If you're afraid of failing you won't get very far...

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Afraid
  • Failing

• There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Ideas
  • Film
  • Filmmaker

• Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Opportunity
  • Responsibility
  • Pain

• You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Rejection
  • Addresses
  • Indication

• You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

  

  Cennino Cennini
  • World
  • Art
  • Drawing

• I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Opportunity
  • Students
  • Failing

• If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Moving
  • Easier

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