Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Anchee Min

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Anne Baxter

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

Andrew Bird

Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

Ambrose Bierce

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

Ambrose Bierce

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

Ambrose Bierce

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Anthony Hopkins

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

Aesop

It is easy to despise what you cannot get

You can always work off last year. You can be happy, but anything can happen in the playoffs, so you'd kind of like to take it to the next level, step it up in the playoffs. That's what we failed to do (last year).

Heinrich Heine

Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

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.

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

Avery Johnson

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

We would be billionaires, but we took responsibility for Summa's failure.

Edward Brooke

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

Linda McMahon

We did not effectively manage our licensing program, ... While we negotiated good deals, introduced great products in the marketplace, we failed to provide the retail marketing support and monitoring that was needed.

We did everything possible to prevent this happening but we have failed miserably.

Jane Wagner

I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

Winston Churchill

We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Susan B. Anthony

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

Susan B. Anthony

Failure is impossible.

Tom Hooper

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

Bridget Riley

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

What's worth doing even if you fail?

When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.