Failing Quotations

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.

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

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.

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

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

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

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

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

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.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

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

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

You can't just pillory the teachers unions and sound the free market trumpet. We must visit the failing schools. We must talk to the mother who desperately wants more for her child and offer a constructive way out. We can't simply lambaste... food stamps or decry dependency.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

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

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.

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.

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

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

Every day, without fail, I eat some dark chocolate.

I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

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

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

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

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

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.

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.

The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

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.

And 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.

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say

While Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the dangers of failing to evacuate hospitals from the path of a storm, Hurricane Gustav demonstrated that moving thousands of sick people has its own risks. Gustav also highlighted a critical vulnerability of American hospitals - an inability to withstand prolonged blackouts.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

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

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.

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.

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

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

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

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

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

You just have this freedom when you're younger - this lack of concern to fail or do anything wrong. It comes with an ease that I've found has kind of deteriorated over time.