Fail Quotes
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We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
George Saunders
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One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
Aristotle
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The only failures are those who fail to try.
Lester B. Pearson
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Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
Joseph J. Ellis
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You cannot fail unless you quit.
Abraham Lincoln
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Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.
Abraham Lincoln
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Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
Sara Blakely
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By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
Scott Adams
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Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
James Hutton
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It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.
Donald Miller
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I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
Laurie Anderson