Quotes about Failing

Failing to plan is planning to fail. Votes: 4

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. Votes: 4

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. Votes: 4

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. Votes: 4

Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness. Votes: 3

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. Votes: 3

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Votes: 3

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding, Votes: 3

Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do. Votes: 3

Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem. Votes: 3

Failing is not real, it's an optional state of mind. Votes: 3

We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us Votes: 3

Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don't let it devour you. Votes: 3

Failing to win is not important, but failing to participate is. Votes: 3

Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night. Votes: 3

Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is Votes: 3

Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness. Votes: 3

Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals? Votes: 3

Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin. Votes: 3

Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not. Votes: 3

Gwen Cassidy needed a man. Desperately. Failing that, she'd settle for a cigarette. Votes: 3

Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone. Votes: 3

Failing to remember is the primary reason for most performers' poor practising habits. Votes: 3

The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do. Votes: 3

The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success. Votes: 3

Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent. Votes: 3

Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale. Votes: 3

Failing is not a disgrace unless you make it the last chapter of your book. Votes: 3

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness. Votes: 3

Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis. Votes: 3

Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy. Votes: 3

Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences. Votes: 3

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. Votes: 3

Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us Votes: 3

Failing can provide invaluable lessons and making mistakes and experiencing setbacks is part of the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Votes: 3

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.' Votes: 3

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you. Votes: 3

Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal. Votes: 3

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. Votes: 3

Failing to differentiate among employees "” and holding on to bottom-tier performers "” is actually the cruelest form of management there is. Votes: 3

If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue! Votes: 3

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. Votes: 3

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information, Votes: 3

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction. Votes: 3

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press Votes: 3

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know? Votes: 3

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. Votes: 3

Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results. Votes: 3

Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game. Votes: 3

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all. Votes: 3

With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown. Votes: 3

A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death. Votes: 3

The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible. Votes: 3

Failing to make it to the list of the best 5 students in class or not being named the team captain should not make anyone feel like they have failed. Votes: 3

Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and confidence are a natural result of proper preparation. Votes: 3

According to the food waste pyramid, ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals. Votes: 3

According to the 'food waste pyramid,' ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals. Votes: 3

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying. Votes: 3

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time. Votes: 3

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs. Votes: 3

Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure. Votes: 3

You must not end your life because you failed an examination. Failing an examination or making a mistake does not make you a failure at life. The context of life is broader than that. Votes: 3

Learn how to fail intelligently. Votes: 2

Men are born to succeed, not to fail. Votes: 2

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything. Votes: 2

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Votes: 2

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. Votes: 2

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. Votes: 2

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Votes: 2

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Votes: 2

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. Votes: 2

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. Votes: 2

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. Votes: 2

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. Votes: 2

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. Votes: 2

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. Votes: 2

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. Votes: 2

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. Votes: 2

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. Votes: 2

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. Votes: 2

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. Votes: 2

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. Votes: 2

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. Votes: 2

I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers. Votes: 2

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. Votes: 2

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. Votes: 2

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. Votes: 2

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us. Votes: 2

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. Votes: 2

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. Votes: 2

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. Votes: 2

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. Votes: 2

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself. Votes: 2

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people. Votes: 2

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. Votes: 2

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. Votes: 2

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world. Votes: 2

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing. Votes: 2

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor. Votes: 2

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. Votes: 2

No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist. Votes: 2

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now. Votes: 2

I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment - trying to be feminists and failing to be. Votes: 2

We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests. Votes: 2

Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that. Votes: 2

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it. Votes: 2

Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously! Votes: 2

Stop thinking of failing. Votes: 0

Trying is failing with honor Votes: 0

The fearful are the failing. Votes: 0

Remember. Or, failing that, invent. Votes: 0

I like movies about failing. Votes: 0

I don't like failing at anything. Votes: 0

It is failing the American people miserably. Votes: 0

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Votes: 0

If you aren't failing, you aren't trying. Votes: 0

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. Votes: 0

I don't believe in failing. I have dignity. Votes: 0

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown. Votes: 0

If you arent focused on success, youre failing. Votes: 0

There's a buzz to failing and not dying. Votes: 0

I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people. Votes: 0

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools. Votes: 0

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice. Votes: 0

Perserverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. Votes: 0

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing. Votes: 0

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth. Votes: 0

Men loathe the feeling of failing at the relationship. Votes: 0

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough. Votes: 0

Business cannot succeed in a world that is failing. Votes: 0

I was kind of scared of failing at acting. Votes: 0

The love of wine is a good man's failing. Votes: 0

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment. Votes: 0

Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization. Votes: 0

Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing. Votes: 0

If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward. Votes: 0

Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is. Votes: 0

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself. Votes: 0

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast. Votes: 0

If you're afraid of failing you won't get very far Votes: 0

You have to stop yourself from even thinking about failing. Votes: 0

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism. Votes: 0

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws). Votes: 0

Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us. Votes: 0

I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder. Votes: 0

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. Votes: 0

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush. Votes: 0

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing. Votes: 0

Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity. Votes: 0

Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall! Votes: 0

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression, Votes: 0

A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come. Votes: 0

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go. Votes: 0

By failing to value your time, you are devaluing your life. Votes: 0

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. Votes: 0

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth. Votes: 0

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people. Votes: 0

The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing. Votes: 0

I'm single and looking and failing miserably. I'm keeping my options open. Votes: 0

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things. Votes: 0

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing. Votes: 0

It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself ... Votes: 0

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. Votes: 0

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses. Votes: 0

Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating. Votes: 0

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. Votes: 0

I don't believe in failure. I'm perseverant - I believe in failing. Votes: 0

His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle. Votes: 0

Too many hearts have been broken, failing to trust what they feel. Votes: 0

But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail. Votes: 0

We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing Votes: 0

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing. Votes: 0

Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing. Votes: 0

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times. Votes: 0

Fall forward, in your failing, and rise up with a soul on fire! Votes: 0

O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore! Votes: 0

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity. Votes: 0

The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing Votes: 0

In the end, failing to plan and planning to fail aren't so different. Votes: 0

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist, ... Votes: 0

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools. Votes: 0

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them. Votes: 0

The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something. Votes: 0

It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing. Votes: 0

Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them. Votes: 0

Passing out while you try to kill yourself is like failing at failing. Votes: 0

The secret to failing isn't failing; the secret to failing is failing forward. Votes: 0

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker Votes: 0

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses. Votes: 0

I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right. Votes: 0

The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling. Votes: 0

If you aren't failing every now and then, you're probably playing it too safe. Votes: 0

Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself. Votes: 0

The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing. Votes: 0

If you complain that Allah is testing you too much, you're failing the test. Votes: 0

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes. Votes: 0

I don't mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for. Votes: 0

I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts. Votes: 0

I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts. Votes: 0

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed Votes: 0

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else. Votes: 0

Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail. Votes: 0

The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall. Votes: 0

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing. Votes: 0

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. Votes: 0

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable. Votes: 0

A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep. Votes: 0

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have. Votes: 0

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. Votes: 0

There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot. Votes: 0

The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it. Votes: 0

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing. Votes: 0

Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing? Votes: 0

That's one way to overcome criticism: tank so hard that failing becomes glorious and meaningless. Votes: 0

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing. Votes: 0

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically. Votes: 0

Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain. Votes: 0

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. Votes: 0

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty. Votes: 0

I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took. Votes: 0

Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap. Votes: 0

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems. Votes: 0

Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty. Votes: 0

The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety. Votes: 0

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. Votes: 0

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. Votes: 0

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others. Votes: 0

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity. Votes: 0

Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens. Votes: 0

It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather. Votes: 0

You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far. Votes: 0

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You. Votes: 0

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. Votes: 0

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have. Votes: 0

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing. Votes: 0

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried. Votes: 0

If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were. Votes: 0

It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again. Votes: 0

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing. Votes: 0

Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it. Votes: 0

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting. Votes: 0

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant. Votes: 0

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.' Votes: 0

No amount of advertising can repair the damage done by failing to properly address a customer's concern. Votes: 0

The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed -- socialism doesn't work, Votes: 0

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits. Votes: 0

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky. Votes: 0

May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help. Votes: 0

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money. Votes: 0

May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help. Votes: 0

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things. Votes: 0

I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing. Votes: 0

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. Votes: 0

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed. Votes: 0

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. Votes: 0

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character. Votes: 0

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing. Votes: 0

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father. Votes: 0

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing Votes: 0

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day. Votes: 0

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. Votes: 0

I'm constantly failing, but not upset about it. I think there's a great deal to learn from that. Votes: 0

A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good. Votes: 0

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing. Votes: 0

SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing. Votes: 0

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work. Votes: 0

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. Votes: 0

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. Votes: 0

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental. Votes: 0

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing. Votes: 0

Everybody loves winning, but we should not linger on the difference between winning and losing"¦But Is losing failing? Votes: 0

Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves. Votes: 0

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off. Votes: 0

Opportunities that always fail need change; else they will continue to keep failing till the future have its end. Votes: 0

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining, Votes: 0

The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing. Votes: 0

I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go. Call that a strength or a failing, whatever. Votes: 0

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality. Votes: 0

The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Votes: 0

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new. Votes: 0

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address. Votes: 0

I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally. Votes: 0

If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative Votes: 0

The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change. Votes: 0

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. Votes: 0

I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection. Votes: 0

I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph. Votes: 0

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life. Votes: 0

I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing. Votes: 0

One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it. Votes: 0

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing. Votes: 0

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor. Votes: 0

Never accept conventional wisdom when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them? Votes: 0

When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things. Votes: 0

The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test. Votes: 0

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today. Votes: 0

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system. Votes: 0

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was? Votes: 0

If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing. Votes: 0

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning. Votes: 0

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing. Votes: 0

I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it. Votes: 0

Leaders believe that falling is not failing, but refusal to rise up after falling is the real form of failure! Votes: 0

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries. Votes: 0

The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right. Votes: 0

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. Votes: 0

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory. Votes: 0

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption Votes: 0

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. Votes: 0

The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast. Votes: 0

Let us throw ourselves into the ocean of His goodness, where every failing will be canceled and anxiety turned into love. Votes: 0

As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough. Votes: 0

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available. Votes: 0

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. Votes: 0

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. Votes: 0

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing. Votes: 0

Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy. Votes: 0

Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less. Votes: 0

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless. Votes: 0

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true. Votes: 0

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do. Votes: 0

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist. Votes: 0

I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence. Votes: 0

I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk. Votes: 0

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it. Votes: 0

The same feeling you get from succeeding is the same feeling I get from failing, now imagine what happens when I win. Votes: 0

Being a warrior doesn't mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live. Votes: 0

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally. Votes: 0

No one should ever be afraid of failing; it's being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against. Votes: 0

Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent. Votes: 0

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? Votes: 0

Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there. Votes: 0

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system. Votes: 0

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance. Votes: 0

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. Votes: 0

The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag. Votes: 0

Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success. Votes: 0

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried. Votes: 0

You shouldn't fear failure. You should fear succeeding at the wrong thing. I may fail, but I'm failing at the right thing. Votes: 0

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing. Votes: 0

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime. Votes: 0

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term. Votes: 0

I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words. Votes: 0

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student. Votes: 0

In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can. Votes: 0

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly. Votes: 0

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue. Votes: 0

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. Votes: 0

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process. Votes: 0

Nature follows the way of the celestial immortals, the never-failing source of inspiration, the eternal masters of this and all sacred medicine traditions. Votes: 0

Successful people work hard on the right things b/c working hard on the wrong things only makes one worn out while failing. Votes: 0

If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work. Votes: 0

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing. Votes: 0

People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge. Votes: 0

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. Votes: 0

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate. Votes: 0

When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness. Votes: 0

I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children. Votes: 0

I think it's unfair to say that Chinese companies are squeezing out American companies. China has so many solar companies that are failing, too. Votes: 0

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to Votes: 0

The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old. Votes: 0

We have a choice between those who are failing to deliver and those who are unthinkable ... Neither party currently is where the country is. Votes: 0

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it. Votes: 0

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied. Votes: 0

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. Votes: 0

It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us. Votes: 0

I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals? Votes: 0

Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home. Votes: 0

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind. Votes: 0

The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills. Votes: 0

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot. Votes: 0

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing. Votes: 0

We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership, Votes: 0

You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state. Votes: 0

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly. Votes: 0

I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?' Votes: 0

There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up. Votes: 0

They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air. Votes: 0

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life. Votes: 0

If we don't acknowledge and accept where we are failing, then we'll never do the work that it takes to make it right for US. Votes: 0

Wacko Glenn Beck is a sad answer to the Sarah Palin endorsement that [Ted] Cruz so desperately wanted. Glenn is a failing, crying, lost soul. Votes: 0

Opportunities may surface clearly, but it takes a positive mind to see them. Positive people think and think possibilities even in difficulties and failing situations. Votes: 0

Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative. Votes: 0

Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu. Votes: 0

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing. Votes: 0

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing. Votes: 0

Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin. Votes: 0

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive. Votes: 0

If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway. Votes: 0

I feel like people around me are betters voting on the wrong horse in the race. I am that horse, always failing to make others win. Votes: 0

If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is no. Votes: 0

When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon. Votes: 0

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance. Votes: 0

A lot of people are afraid to succeed and don't want to fail but if you don't attempt, aren't you already failing in the same spot? Votes: 0

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. Votes: 0

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less. Votes: 0

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing. Votes: 0

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn. Votes: 0

Are you wrestling faster than the audience can process? The answer to that question is often times yes. If that is true, then you are failing. Votes: 0

How Sweet the name of Jesus... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace. Votes: 0

Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America. Votes: 0

There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote. Votes: 0

If you make mistakes that is alright because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again. Votes: 0

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future. Votes: 0

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward. Votes: 0

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness. Votes: 0

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be. Votes: 0

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave. Votes: 0

The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time. Votes: 0

I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live. Votes: 0

I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy. Votes: 0

Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market failures in the core of curriculum. Votes: 0

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing. Votes: 0

So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing. Votes: 0

It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being. Votes: 0

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge. Votes: 0

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans. Votes: 0

Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you're not failing from time to time, you're not pushing yourself. And if you're not pushing yourself, you're coasting. Votes: 0

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it Votes: 0

By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe. Votes: 0

I never look at failing as an option anyhow. I believe thinking you could fail is already shooting yourself in the foot and setting yourself up for failure. Votes: 0

It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing. Votes: 0

Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need. Votes: 0

Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward! Votes: 0

You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default. Votes: 0

Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves. Votes: 0

The recent AP poll that came out last month said that approximately 90% of the American people felt that the two-party system was failing us in the presidential election. Votes: 0

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition. Votes: 0

You can go from seeking to seeker when you stop bouncing. Set a plan for change and take the risks you need to take without worrying about failing. Votes: 0

Never think of the consequences of failing for you will always think of a negative result. Think only positive thoughts and your mind will gravitate towards those thoughts! Votes: 0

The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful. Votes: 0

Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy. Votes: 0

This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything. Votes: 0

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift. Votes: 0

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success. Votes: 0

One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body. Votes: 0

As for His failing you, never dream of it -- hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end. Votes: 0

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment. Votes: 0

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed. Votes: 0

Depressed people don't end up lying in bed because they are undercommitted to goals. They end up lying in bed because they are overcommitted to goals that are failing. Votes: 0

The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel. Votes: 0

I have accused L.B. Management of failing to report to me, and I've told L.B. Management the money is missing, and it could very well be embezzled. Votes: 0

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. Votes: 0

There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves. Votes: 0

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is. Votes: 0

We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face. Votes: 0

I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones. Votes: 0

Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower. Votes: 0

Look, I don't need to feel like hell for failing you, okay? For failing you like I've failed every other godforsaken thing that I care about! I don't need it! Votes: 0

What he wanted was Megan wanting him... but not needing him. Not vulnerable to him. Sure as help not trying to leave him over and over again... and simply failing. Votes: 0

We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us. Votes: 0

When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder. Votes: 0

You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government. Votes: 0

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools. Votes: 0

Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is Parliament that is failing to provide good value for money. Votes: 0

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly. Votes: 0

It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools! Votes: 0

This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age. Votes: 0

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices. Votes: 0

However, President Obama's unwillingness to attend the Paris march is a personal failing on his part that I believe does damage to the pride and soul of the nation he leads. Votes: 0

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with." Votes: 0

One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion. Votes: 0

To place your horse's need for you to let him leave his failing body above your need to keep him with you - that - is the greatest and purest love. Votes: 0

I was in college for two years but I didn´t attend too much. Then I decided to drop out. I was having too many nightmares about failing in the exams. Votes: 0

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements. Votes: 0

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us. Votes: 0

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love. Votes: 0

We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements. Votes: 0

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure. Votes: 0

At 13, I was fearless. I looked at everything so positive. When you're older and been through it all, you know how bad it can get. There is a fear of failing. Votes: 0

She thought of the way he never made made her feel crazy, even when she was acting crazy, and never made her feel like a failure, even when she was failing. Votes: 0

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper. Votes: 0

I don't think anyone would look at Colombia today and say that it is failing. This positive outcome is an example of the effective application of smart power - it is succeeding. Votes: 0

And on that day when my strength is failing; the end draws near and my time has come. Still my soul will sing Your praise unending ten thousand years and then forevermore Votes: 0

It comes down to taking care of the people in your program and making them the best they can be-not giving up on them and never failing to be there for them. Votes: 0

I know you feel worn and tired. I know you're tired of failing. Rest, but don't stop. You can do this. You got this. Not because you're strong, but because He's your strength. Votes: 0

About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact. Votes: 0

A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy. Votes: 0

I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it. Votes: 0

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination. Votes: 0

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn. Votes: 0

I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do. Votes: 0

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there. Votes: 0

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is. Votes: 0

I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not pass within I burn but the burning makes no mark outside Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination. Votes: 0

It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue. Votes: 0

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best. Votes: 0

I’m an entrepreneur at heart. I’m not afraid of starting up, starting over or even failing for that matter, because the fact that I try new things in itself is a victory. Votes: 0

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood. Votes: 0

I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days. Votes: 0

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure. Votes: 0

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. Votes: 0

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals. Votes: 0

I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, but it was just not happening. Votes: 0

My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away. Votes: 0

I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go. Votes: 0