Fail Quotes

Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

I've never been afraid to fail.

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

My judgment is that research in 'Star Wars' is going to fail, and I believe this so strongly that I'm willing to stake my professional reputation on this. I don't believe anybody is going to build this thing.

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

Where words fail, music speaks.

I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.

When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

I'm so misunderstood!

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail.

God will not forgive us if we fail.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

I'm afraid to fail again.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

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