Failing Quotes

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

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

I'm single and looking and failing miserably. I'm keeping my options open.

We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.

I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

I don't like failing at anything.

I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!

The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.