Fail Quotes
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Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
Charles Dickens
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Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.
William Faulkner
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Amazing what people can fail to see when it’s a man doing it to a woman, even a respectable-looking woman.
Elizabeth Bear
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I now knew a method of speaking and writing that—by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn’t supposed to fail—sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.
Elena Ferrante
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Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
Kevin Costner
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People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward.
Thomas A. Edison
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This game is a game of failure, and you're going to fail a heck of a lot more than you succeed in it.
Alex Bregman
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For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it...
John Lennon The Beatles
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Politics is as much a regular business as the grocery or the dry-goods or the drug business. You've got to be trained up to it or you're sure to fail.
George W. Plunkitt
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Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
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I believe you can do 99 percent of the things right but not possess a positive winning attitude, and you will fail.
Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
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The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.
Michelangelo
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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
Thomas Hardy
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When words fail, the guitar speaks.
George Szell
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Most of the people who fail in what they want to accomplish do so because they underestimate who they are. When they don’t believe they can succeed at something, they have little chance.
Elizabeth Bear
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Keep your head up and smile, because someone somewhere wants to see you fail.
Burnell Taylor
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
Cesare Pavese
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All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it.
Bruce Willis
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If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.
Erwin W. Lutzer
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A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.
Ally Carter
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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
Benjamin Rush
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We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.
Sumner Redstone
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A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it's going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, 'Wow, that movie' - or that show or whatever - 'turned out really well.'
Bad Bunny