Failing Quotations | Page 3

Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.

When all else fails, take a vacation.

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding,

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big.

If you don't fail, you're not even trying.

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

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is

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

"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.

So rage, proud Power: fail again! And see my blood teach Death to die!

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

You must act as if it's impossible to fail.

How can I fail when I have no purpose?

We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

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.

Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.

if I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.

The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary.

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

I think comedy Ive learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

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.

There are no excuses for failing on that. You can't get any closer.

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

The real failing that my client had was in assisting his son in trying to cover it up.

The panel has set back, rather than advanced, the prospects for reform by failing to offer realistic proposals that fairly distribute the tax burden across income levels and the states,

Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

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

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,

What's worth doing even if you fail?

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail.

Every now and then we're going to fail.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

If you can't build relationships from nothing, you will fail. You must have that drive.

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.

I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.

Anything I've ever attempted, I was always willing to fail.

You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.

I will not fail, I will not disappoint you, I will not let you down.

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.

The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.

Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.

Learn how to fail intelligently.

If you're scarde to fail, you don't deserve to be successful.

When all else fails...be a rockstar

All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter.

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.

Manifesto commitments mean nothing unless they are followed by action to deliver them. Despite progress at the EU and the Commonwealth last year, the UK is failing to use its influence at the UN to push for tighter controls on the international arms trade. The UK started out as one of the leaders behind the idea of the treaty but has since failed to show leadership at the UN to make it a reality.

Shortly after I came on, the district acquired the golf dome, which was a failing business. That has been a great boon for the community.

Online usability of financial disclosures is essential for investors to easily stay informed about their investments in public company securities, particularly as companies begin to replace printed reports with Web versions. Yet the vast majority of these mega-cap companies are failing to meet an acceptable usability standard.

My hunch is, we're watching a bureaucratic slow-roll take place, but the danger is it's happening as the situation on the ground is getting worse. The administration has been in this knot of having called the situation genocide but then failing to do anything.

Now that the actual number appears to be lower, that doesn't make this any less of a tragedy or any less of a horrendous failing of our government. Now it's a tragic revision. So it's not as bad as we thought, so it's OK? Of course it's not.

Now there is distress of nations, with perplexity, the seas and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear.

NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The contractors are guilty of promising the moon and not delivering. And Congress is guilty for failing to oversee it from beginning to end.

No child should have to go to a failing school,

New York has continued to violate the rights of the people it arrests even after the Court of Appeals ruled that arrestees must see a judge within 24 hours of their arrests. The city is failing to comply with the law, and it's up to the City Council to set things right.

One of the reasons for having two engines is so you can have two almost totally independent systems -- separate fuel feeds, separate ignition systems -- just as kind of a backup, ... So the chances of two of them failing simultaneously makes us very curious about the cause.

I have found that a person is not a failure due to lack of opportunity, but because of failing to focus attention and resources on the opportunity at hand.

But the state's concern should be about the other 5 percent. We have no information about what kind of education they are receiving from their parents. Not finding out is a failing on the part of the state of Michigan.

Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started Homeboy Plumbing. That didn't go so well. Who knew? People didn't want gang members in their homes. I just didn't see that coming.

I'll admit I was having a little trouble in the classroom before. I wasn't failing or anything, but my coaches could see I wasn't living up to my potential. I was just going through the motions, just getting by, just staying eligible.

I had hit a brick wall. I had gotten injured, and my grades were failing and I had to do something.

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.

From our early investigation, it appears parts from the failing engine penetrated the cabin.

From falling wages and increasing health care costs, to sky-high gas prices and climbing poverty rates, the Bush economy is failing America's working families. The only thing worse than this Bush economy is the last Bush economy.

If a crime occurs in the house and the house is not secure, the next step would obviously be to actually prosecute them for failing to abide by the statutes.

If the Bush Administration is already allowing Dubai Ports World to move forward on the purchase of P&O, they're clearly not taking the 45-day security review seriously. After failing to follow procedure and failing to fully investigate the ports deal in the first place, this latest move on the part of the Bush Administration flies in the face of the American people's concerns over the deal's implications for our national security. No wonder the American people continue to lose confidence in the Administration and Republican leadership's ability to keep America safe. Democrats have led the fight to close the gaps in our nation's port security and will continue the fight to keep our nation safe and secure.

There is no excuse for failing to declare one's business interests. It is simply a matter of filling out a form. Failure to do so constitutes either negligence or an attempt to conceal a possible conflict of interest or even contempt for the Parliamentary ethics process. Either way, there must be consequences.

With merger speculation failing to die out and strengthening metals prices, European markets are set for another strong start.

We are failing to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . a dead weight of human waste . . .an ever-increasing spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.

We are failing as a country because our structures have broken down. We have left everything to the presidency and we have caused our people to zero in on what is at State House.

History is repeating itself because the calls for military protection for the state media were not heeded. C?te d'Ivoire's state media have again fallen into the hands of the proponents of violence, and no time should be lost in taking energetic measures. The installations of RTI and RCI should be made secure or, failing that, they should be taken off the air.

The range of views now include a unified consensus that the failures are Iraq's, that the consequences are Iraq's and that the international community believes that Saddam Hussein is failing to comply with his required obligations.

He just wouldn't study. Then he'd get these failing grades, and that would further hurt his self-esteem.

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.

John H. Johnson, what a man, what a legacy. Although his written words were many, his spoken words were few. I'd like to share some of his most poignant taken from his autobiography 'Succeeding Against the Odds.' He says, and I quote, 'I believe that the only failure is failing to try and if my life has meaning, it is because millions of Americans, black and white, have proved through me that the dream is still alive and well and working in America,'

I think it is important to emphasize that Montana's economy has been growing at an above-average rate compared to the rest of the nation for most of the last decade, so people's perception of the Montana economy as failing is distorted.

I think you're going to see companies out-and-out failing this year,

I think the fingerprints of a faltering job market are all over this report. We've got more people working, but they're failing to get ahead.

It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.

I think what's happening is we are failing to equip children with the skills that they need - the emotional skills as well as the practical skills.

I think they've got their head in the sand, failing to recognize their market share is deteriorating and will continue to deteriorate much faster than they or anyone else anticipated a few years ago.

It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.