Quotes about fail
failing periods bigs
Any bank that is too big to fail is too big. Period. Robert Reich
failure blessing civil-war
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. Robert E. Lee
failure ideas trying
To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can. Richard P. Feynman
failure men political
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind. Richard Hofstadter
failure self effort
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Robert M. Pirsig
failure fall degrees
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. Robert Louis Stevenson
failure giving individual
Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine. Voltaire
failure crime i-have-made-mistakes
Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is. Walter Wriston
failure failing mishaps
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one Walter Savage Landor
failure thinking care
Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested. William J. H. Boetcker
failure trying learning-from-mistakes
If you're not failing, you're not trying anything. Woody Allen
failing innovative ifs
If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you are not doing anything very innovative
failure errors trials
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth. William Whewell
failure steps success-failure
Every failure is a step to success.
failure writing people
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune. William McFee
failure trying guarantees
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. William J. Clinton
failure fire use
Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources. William James
failure lows persons
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
failure men secret
Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.
failure thumbs crowds
Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds. Wilbur Smith
failure good-luck thinking
If you think you can - you can! Ronald Reagan
failing plans planners
The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.
failing lord confession
In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You. Saint Augustine
failing protect
A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect W. E. B. Du Bois
failure mean detours
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Zig Ziglar
failure winning games
One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it. William Hazlitt
failure giving doubt
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
failure character men
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. W. Somerset Maugham
failure pace example
Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd. William Penn
failure steps
Each failure brings you one step closer to success.