Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

Dalai Lama

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.

Dolly Parton

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

David Ogilvy

Why do eight out of ten new consumer products fail? Sometimes because they are too new. The first cold cereals were rejected by consumers. More often new products fail because they are not new enough.

Claude Monet

My life has been nothing but a failure.

Dan Savage

every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

Cyril Connolly

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Daniel Pauly

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

David Zinczenko

Failure is not an option. Failure is a prerequisite.

David Packard

The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.

Confucius

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Cyndi Lauper

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

David Gemmell

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

Debbie Allen

Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

Amber Valletta

If all else fails, a few deep breaths.

Anna Olson

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

Amy Tan

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

He could do worse than to go to Delmas to see how his own government has failed its own people in its own backyard.

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

To fail in Dr. John's vision is to fail Dr. John.

Avery Johnson

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

Paulo Coelho

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Jared Bernstein

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 for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

Max Beerbohm

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

The purpose of the inspection program is to make sure that if there are poles that are deteriorating, we go out, identify them and make sure the ones that are tending toward failure are braced or replaced.

We took to the streets because all other methods had failed. All political parties failed us miserably on this issue.

We take it very seriously when someone fails validation and then responds by identifying where they received counterfeit or infringing products.

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Seth Berkley

History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world responded, or rather failed to respond, to the epidemic.

Chuck D.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

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.