Failing Quotes
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If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.
Vinnie Jones
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Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.
Christopher Bollen
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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
Seth Godin
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Fear is the workout we give ourselves imagining what will happen if things don't work out. . . . Worry is our effort to imagine every possible way to avoid the outcome that is causing us fear, and failing that, to survive the thing that we fear if it comes to fruition.
Seth Godin
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Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
William Shakespeare
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You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.
Joseph Heller
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Unless you stop trying, how can you not fail anymore?
PewDiePie
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Upon the whole I doubt whether the Benefits of opposition to the Constitution opposition to the Constitution will not ultimately be productive of more good than evil; it has called forth, in its defence, abilities which would not perhaps have been otherwise exerted that have thrown a new light upon the science of government, It has given the rights of man a full and fair discussion, and explained them in so clear and forcible a manner, as cannot fail to make a lasting impression.
George Washington
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The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.
Michael Moorcock
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A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can’t guarantee outcomes… in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be able to fail. If you have guaranteed experiments, you have zero knowledge
George Gilder
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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
Dante Alighieri
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Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time.
Seneca the Younger
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The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.
William Glasser
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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
Bob Goff
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Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
Katharine Tynan
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I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.
Sarah Dessen
