Fail Quotes

• Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail.

  

  Amy Harmon
  • Moment
  • Fail
  • Nobody

• In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Learn
  • Fail
  • Measurement system

• Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
  • Fail
  • Fortunate
  • Ambitious

• It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Recognize
  • Excuses
  • Doesn`t Matter

• When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it to yourself, pass it over to the creative power behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes, follow it with assurance. Don't talk to anyone about it. Never listen to negative talk or pay attention to it and you will succeed where all others fail.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Succeed
  • Pattern
  • Pay Attention

• Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.

  

  Joseph Murray
  • Control
  • Fail
  • Scientific

• People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • People
  • Criticism
  • Fail

• For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Chance
  • Difference
  • Sentence

• People will talk about money in the general sense, but not in the specific sense of, like, where'd you fail, how'd you succeed, how'd you do it.

  

  Su-chin Pak
  • Money
  • Succeed
  • Fail

• I don't want to over think anything because the second I do, I start to fail.

  

  Nicholas Thorburn
  • Think
  • Start
  • Fail

• What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Freedom
  • England
  • Fail

• No-one wants to see anybody fail in life.

  

  Barry O'Sullivan
  • Life
  • Fail

• We demand from others only what we fail to give ourselves.

  

  Edward F Edinger
  • Demand
  • Fail

• I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Interested
  • Universes
  • Self-Deception

• I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Remain
  • Gates
  • God's Word

• There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

  

  George Eliot
  • Love
  • Sorrow
  • Reach

• If you think you cannot do it, you set yourself up to fail anyway. Maybe it will take one more try to do it, and that is what life is about. If you don't get it right on the first try, you try again. You keep doing it and doing it until you find success!

  

  Benoit Lecomte
  • Think
  • Success
  • Try

• If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Fail
  • Inventive

• The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Remember
  • Learning
  • Wonder

• We're often kind and benevolent to senior executives who fail.

  

  Alan Johnson
  • Kind
  • Fail
  • Executives

• A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

  

  John Berry
  • Money
  • Idea
  • Fail

• Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

  

  George Robinson
  • Accept
  • Suffer
  • Fail

• I think there's a general confusion that my work is about types of photography. But really that's just a tool to introduce some questions I have about seeing. What happens when all of these conditions and structures and histories and cultures and tools you have around you begin to fail? On the one hand there is an engagement with histories and cultures, and on the other, there is this very lonesome space of actually coming to terms with seeing.

  

  Elad Lassry
  • Photography
  • Conditions
  • Confusion

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