Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

There was a man from Sung who pulled at his rice plants because he was worried about their failure to grow

These people have a very poor quality of life, ... We fail them as reconstructive surgeons.

The Navajo Nation has failed to protect the resources of its people.

The nature of the failures and the practices we saw was just egregious, completely outrageous.

After that, she realized what it would take to get to the top this year. Often, our failures motivate us to do even better. Lisa saw that as something she did not want to let happen again.

It's true. They are a failure in planning.

I'm not happy about it because I think it represents a failure of government to plan,

I'm disappointed because we put ourselves under a lot of pressure giving away too many penalties in the first half and failing to take our opportunities in the second.

Spike Jonze

I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do.

Orlando Bloom

I love this guy, ... I love the journey he goes on. It's a story we can all relate to, in terms of success and failure and the momentary happiness in life. What really makes people tick? What really makes them understand life?

It was a major flop, but we'll have the songs forever.

Elliott Sadler

I've got a great race team and we're all pulling together, ... This is what we work hard for -- we're all going to fail together or we're going to succeed together, and that's the way this 38 team is.

No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.

Michael Ignatieff

Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.

William Banting

This led me to other medical advisers, to whom I am also indebted for much kind consideration, though, unfortunately, they failed in relieving me.

This kind of grade -- unfulfilled, insufficient, minimal progress -- those grades are failing grades ... That is an unacceptable response.

If you fail to initiate the appropriate steps within the first hour or two, patients very rapidly become comatose and the mortality increases significantly.

If you are not a professional about security, you are a failure,

In the last six years, we've performed about 2,300 sanctioned hacks for our clients, and we've only failed to penetrate the networks twice.

Sandra Bullock

In people's minds, I had failed and was on the outs, so I was able to go back and concentrate on making the films I love to do.

John Krasinski

I had done one failed pilot. I remember, when it failed, I was like, 'Oh my God, how does someone survive this? That's it - that's the end of my career; it's over.'

Carmelo Anthony

People tend to grow fearful, when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet, that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions!!!!

Glenda Jackson

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

Harold B. Lee

It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.

Jay McInerney

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

Carly Fiorina

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.

Mickey Rooney

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Kathleen Hanna

I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time.

Julia Child

Any disaster is a learning process.

Julia Child

If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.

Judith Butler

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

J. K. Rowling

Everything that fails brings you closer to what works.

J. K. Rowling

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.