Gwen Cassidy needed a man. Desperately. Failing that, she'd settle for a cigarette. Votes: 3
Karen Marie MoningFailing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone. Votes: 3
Donalyn MillerFailing to remember is the primary reason for most performers' poor practising habits. Votes: 3
Howard SnellFailing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent. Votes: 3
Jim GaffiganFailing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale. Votes: 3
Richard HammondFailing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness. Votes: 3
Marcus AureliusFailing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy. Votes: 3
John GreenIt is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. Votes: 3
Charles KetteringSailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us Votes: 3
Maggie StiefvaterI can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. Votes: 2
Michael JordanOur greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. Votes: 2
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. Votes: 2
Woody AllenA man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. Votes: 2
John BurroughsPerserverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. Votes: 0
Julie Andrews EdwardsWe're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment. Votes: 0
Carol Moseley BraunInnocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth. Votes: 0
Charles A. ReichSnobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things. Votes: 0
Charles Dudley WarnerFailure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing. Votes: 0
Brian TracyO faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore! Votes: 0
Dante AlighieriIn failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing Votes: 0
Thomas S. MonsonYou win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist, ... Votes: 0
Seth GodinWisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them. Votes: 0
Jim DoyleThe only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something. Votes: 0
Seth GodinDon't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them. Votes: 0
ConfuciusThere's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker Votes: 0
Mike FiggisFamily issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses. Votes: 0
Jane Velez-MitchellI think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right. Votes: 0
Seth GodinThe Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling. Votes: 0
Paul McCartneyFailure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself. Votes: 0
Donna de VaronaI lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else. Votes: 0
Cyndi LauperThe greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall. Votes: 0
Vince LombardiChauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing. Votes: 0
Elizabeth Cady StantonIt is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. Votes: 0
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFloundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable. Votes: 0
Duncan GreenTragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinFailure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. Votes: 0
Elon MuskThere's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot. Votes: 0
Robin WilliamsThat's one way to overcome criticism: tank so hard that failing becomes glorious and meaningless. Votes: 0
Greg WallochThere's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty. Votes: 0
Trent DilferI was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took. Votes: 0
Tig NotaroAvoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty. Votes: 0
Paul of the CrossThe temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety. Votes: 0
Thomas S. MonsonA beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. Votes: 0
MichelangeloThe successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. Votes: 0
Thomas A. EdisonServe others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others. Votes: 0
Desmond TutuThe survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity. Votes: 0
Criss JamiMemory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens. Votes: 0
Ellen HopkinsIt is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather. Votes: 0
Niccolo MachiavelliYou gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far. Votes: 0
Oprah WinfreyIn failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineWe have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have. Votes: 0
Rupert MurdochI was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinNever feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried. Votes: 0
Og MandinoIf Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were. Votes: 0
Donald E. WestlakeIt takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again. Votes: 0
Tim HanselImagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it. Votes: 0
Leslie JamisonI decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits. Votes: 0
Dustin HoffmanIf you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky. Votes: 0
Ira GlassMay the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help. Votes: 0
Ignatius of LoyolaPoverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money. Votes: 0
Barbara EhrenreichMay the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help. Votes: 0
Saint IgnatiusIt is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character. Votes: 0
Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing. Votes: 0
Gavin DeGrawMy daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father. Votes: 0
Greg BehrendtSo if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing Votes: 0
Gavin DeGrawWhen you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day. Votes: 0
Bill GatesFor it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. Votes: 0
Alan PatonI'm constantly failing, but not upset about it. I think there's a great deal to learn from that. Votes: 0
Jared LetoA never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good. Votes: 0
Kin HubbardLife here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing. Votes: 0
PlotinusSpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing. Votes: 0
Henry SpencerMeanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. Votes: 0
Robert QuineThe great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing. Votes: 0
Albert SchweitzerFounders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new. Votes: 0
Kevin RoseYou have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyIf you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative Votes: 0
Woody AllenI seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection. Votes: 0
Tom StoppardI believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph. Votes: 0
Jack GilbertI have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing. Votes: 0
Katharine TynanHow could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was? Votes: 0
Catherine Gilbert MurdockI'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning. Votes: 0
Taylor SwiftI'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it. Votes: 0
Vince McMahonI know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing. Votes: 0
Daniel JohnsAnd so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no. Votes: 1 David Plouffe
I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting. Votes: 1 Derek Luke
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: 3 N. Robert Hammer
Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale. Votes: 1 Richard Hammond
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: 3 Dick Gephardt
The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward. Votes: 3 Norman Cousins
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: 1 Jeff Greene
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: 1 Joshua Foer
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing. Votes: 2 J. K. Rowling
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. Votes: 1 Jean de la Bruyere
What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally. Votes: 1 Simon Mainwaring
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. Votes: 1 Julie Andrews
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: 7 Anna Paquin